Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being birdlike.
The irreducible birdlikeness of the eagle in The House of Fame had a similar function, in preventing us from being able to take him too seriously as a figure of authority.
1976, A. C. Spearing, Medieval Dream-Poetry, page 98
Origin
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