Meanings
nounsmoulderingness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state of smouldering.
Whether any of our national peculiarities may be traced to our use of stoves, as a certain closeness of the lips in pronunciation, and a smothered smoulderingness of disposition[…]
1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers
Origin
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