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mardness

mardness is the alternative form of marredness.

Meaning of marredness

Noun

marredness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being marred or spoilt.
    • But the feeling would be much stronger in the case of the marred Visage of Jesus, for the marredness of that Visage is to the Christian a part of its beauty.1903, George Matheson, Studies of the Portrait of Christ, page 343
  2. (Northern England, rare) Of a person, the state of being marred or cosseted.
    • I believe it's nowt nobbut their mardness an' their way o' livin ut causes these New York dolls to be so mich like faded waxwork, ut's been melted down for any sort of a face, fro' a queen to a mermaid.1885, Benjamin Brierley, Ab-o'th'-yate in Yankeeland, the results of 2 trips to America, page 43

Origin of mardness

From mard + -ness.

Questions about mardness

What is mardness the alternative form of?
Mardness is the alternative form of marredness.

Words near mardness in the dictionary

  1. mardiviruses
  2. mardle
  3. mardled
  4. mardles
  5. mardling
  6. mardness
  7. mardo
  8. Mardon
  9. Mardones
  10. mardos
  11. mards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mardness (page history and authors); marredness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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