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lumberingness

lumberingness noun: the quality of being lumbering; awkwardness, ponderousness.

Noun

lumberingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being lumbering; awkwardness, ponderousness.
    • […] the English translator […] must not follow the model offered by Mr. Longfellow in his pleasing and popular poem of Evangeline; for the merit of the manner and movement of Evangeline, when they are at their best, is to be tenderly elegant; and their fault, when they are at their worst, is to be...1861, Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford, London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, Lecture III, p. 80
    • […] the one doubt in the public mind as to parliamentary government, the one cause which is so visibly alarming to the “philosophers” who influence the masses, is the excessive, sometimes the intolerable, lumberingness of its action.1869, Topics of the Day. A Forecast of the Session, The Spectator, Volume 42, p. 188, 13 February, 1869

Origin of lumberingness

From lumbering + -ness.

Questions about lumberingness

What does lumberingness mean?
Lumberingness means the quality of being lumbering; awkwardness, ponderousness.
What part of speech is lumberingness?
Lumberingness is a noun.

Words near lumberingness in the dictionary

  1. lumberer
  2. lumberers
  3. lumbering
  4. lumbering with
  5. lumberingly
  6. lumberingness
  7. lumberings
  8. lumberjack
  9. lumberjack breakfast
  10. lumberjack breakfasts
  11. lumberjack shirt

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