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samurainess

samurainess noun: the state or characteristic of being a samurai.

Noun

samurainess (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon) The state or characteristic of being a samurai.
    • the present worker-company bond is therefore to be seen as a contrived rather than a cultural or hereditary "samurainess." There is also much in the political domain to remind one of the samurai era.1993, Winston L. King, Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 227
    • Which is absent from Mishima's samurainess. The purity in his work does go hand in hand with selflessness, but this as oblivion of the ego rather than self-effacement.1996, P. Abelsen, “Irony and Purity: Mishima: I. A Puzzling Event at Ichigaya Garrison 1”, in Modern Asian Studies

Examples of samurainess in a sentence

  • Freed of the feudal baggage of the samurai caste system, the outlaw ronin fumbles towards a samurainess (if so grotesque a neologism can be borne) not restricted to or built on any […]2000, E. von Mueller, “Naked Swords: The Zen Warrior Tradition and the Intertextual Odyssey of the Nameless Ronin in" Seven Samurai,"...
  • From an African American perspective, the "samurainess" of Afro may provide him with the irresistible odds needed to fight the world.2020 October 26, Michael Daliot-Bul, Nissim Otmazgin, The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries, BRILL...

Origin of samurainess

From samurai + -ness.

Questions about samurainess

What does samurainess mean?
Samurainess means the state or characteristic of being a samurai.
How do you use samurainess in a sentence?
Freed of the feudal baggage of the samurai caste system, the outlaw ronin fumbles towards a samurainess (if so grotesque a neologism can be borne) not restricted to or built on any […]
What part of speech is samurainess?
Samurainess is a noun.

Words near samurainess in the dictionary

  1. samurai
  2. Samurai Blue
  3. samurai sauce
  4. samurai sword
  5. samurai swords
  6. samurainess
  7. samurais
  8. Samuskies
  9. Samusky
  10. Samut Prakan
  11. Samut Sakhon

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