Meanings
plural fulnesses
- uncountableusuallyDated spelling of fullness.
[…] yet in its fulness rather formidable and in its common appeal emotional […]
1925 May 14, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, →OCLC2 more examples
In the fulness of his belief that such a thing must be, he mentioned its probability to his wife, and the first time of the subject’s occurring to her again, happening to be when Fanny was present, she calmly observed to her, “So, Fanny, you are going to leave us, and live with my sister. How shall you like it?”
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 46–47On this amiable quality, the mind fixes its eye in unwithdrawing approbation; and the heart yields up the fulness of its fondness with unsatiated delight. Virtue is the beauty of the heavenly world […]
1831, Henry Cogswell Knight, Lectures and Sermons, volume 2, page 104
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