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doness

doness is the alternative spelling of donness.

Meaning of donness

Noun

donness (plural donnesses)

  1. A female don.
    • Tom—to use one of his own expressions—shook his feathers and pulled himself together when Philip came in, and, smoking away in earnest, seemed to take the greatest possible interest in the rector's recollections of the dean's dinner and the after "evening," at which Ethel came out so very...1866, Mark Lemon, Falkner Lyle, Or the Story of Two Wives, volume II, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, page 266

Forms of doness

pluraldonesses

Questions about doness

What is doness the alternative spelling of?
Doness is the alternative spelling of donness.

Words near doness in the dictionary

  1. doner kebaps
  2. doners
  3. dones
  4. Doneses
  5. donesies
  6. doness
  7. donesses
  8. donetidine
  9. Donets
  10. Donets Basin
  11. Donets River

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