fulness

English

Alternative forms

• fullness
• fulnesse (obsolete)

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Noun

fulness (usually uncountable, plural fulnesses)

1. Dated form of fullness.
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 46–47:

     In the fulness of his belief that such a thing must be, he mentioned its probability to his wife, and the first time of the subject’s occurring to her again, happening to be when Fanny was present, she calmly observed to her, “So, Fanny, you are going to leave us, and live with my sister. How shall you like it?”

   • 1831, Henry Cogswell Knight, Lectures and Sermons, volume 2, page 104:

     On this amiable quality, the mind fixes its eye in unwithdrawing approbation; and the heart yields up the fulness of its fondness with unsatiated delight. Virtue is the beauty of the heavenly world […]

   • 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway‎^[1], London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC:

     […] yet in its fulness rather formidable and in its common appeal emotional […]

Derived terms

• fulness of time

Anagrams

• funless, unselfs