treacherousness
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From treacherous + -ness.
Noun
[edit]treacherousness (uncountable)
- Treachery; the characteristic of being treacherous.
- 1901, Bret Harte, “Under the Eaves”, in Under the Redwoods:
- He had an aggressive treacherousness of eye which his potations had not subdued.
References
[edit]- Noah Webster (1828) “treacherousness”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (J–Z), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
- “treacherousness”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.