featness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]featness (uncountable)
- (archaic) skill; adroitness
- 1925, Thomas Hardy, “An Expostulation”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (poem), lines 1-4, page 760:
- Why want to go afar
Where pitfalls are,
When all we swains adore
Your featness more and more
References
[edit]“featness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.