undesirablenesses
undesirablenesses is the plural of undesirableness.
Meaning of undesirableness
Noun
undesirableness (countable and uncountable, plural undesirablenesses)
- The condition or quality of being undesirable.
- These are the things that are in the world; from these doth sin take all its baits, whereby it enticeth and entangleth our souls. If the heart be filled with the cross of Christ, it casts death and undesirableness upon them all, it leaves no seeming beauty, no appearing pleasure or comeliness in...1668, John Owen, chapter 11, in The Nature, Power, Deceit and Prevalency of Indwelling-Sin in Believers, London: G. Keith, published 1774, page 184
- An undesirable quality or thing.
- […] Harcourt Street combined within its precincts all the undesirablenesses that had existed separately in all the other streets she had visited. It was old and dirty, noisy yet dull, swarming with children, and overrun with costermongers, hand-organs, and cats.1884, Katherine Lee, chapter 7, in In London Town, volume I, page 128
Questions about undesirablenesses
- What is undesirablenesses the plural of?
- Undesirablenesses is the plural of undesirableness.
Words near undesirablenesses in the dictionary
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