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hastinesses

hastinesses is the plural of hastiness.

Meaning of hastiness

Noun

hastiness (countable and uncountable, plural hastinesses)

  1. The characteristic of being hasty.
    • But before al of them were assembled to begin their sports, there came a fellow, who being out of breath (or seeming so to be for haste) with humble hastines told Basilius, that his Mistres, the Lady Cecropia, had sent him to excuse the mischance of her beastes ranging in that dãgerous sort, being...c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New...
    Synonyms:
    haste

Questions about hastinesses

What is hastinesses the plural of?
Hastinesses is the plural of hastiness.

Words near hastinesses in the dictionary

  1. hastilude
  2. hastiludes
  3. hastily
  4. Hastinapura
  5. hastiness
  6. hastinesses
  7. hasting
  8. hastings
  9. Hastings County
  10. Hastings Point
  11. hastingsite

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