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sournesses

sournesses is the plural of sourness.

Meaning of sourness

Noun

sourness (countable and uncountable, plural sournesses)

  1. The condition or quality of being sour.
    • [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, page 1

Questions about sournesses

What is sournesses the plural of?
Sournesses is the plural of sourness.

Words near sournesses in the dictionary

  1. sourling
  2. sourlings
  3. sourly
  4. sourmash
  5. sourness
  6. sournesses
  7. sourplum
  8. sourplums
  9. sourpuss
  10. sourpussed
  11. sourpusses

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