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bignesses

bignesses is the plural of bigness.

bignesses is the plural of bignesse.

Meaning of bigness

Noun

bigness (countable and uncountable, plural bignesses)

  1. (archaic) Size.
    • His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet,[…]. When his head is growne out to the full bigneſſe, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called fraying of his head.1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the Termes of Venery”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 244
  2. The characteristic of being big.
    • It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words.1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter III, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC

Questions about bignesses

What is bignesses the plural of?
Bignesses is the plural of bigness.

Words near bignesses in the dictionary

  1. bignays
  2. Bignell
  3. Bignells
  4. bigness
  5. bignesse
  6. bignesses
  7. bignonia
  8. bignoniaceous
  9. bignonias
  10. Bignor
  11. bignose

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