Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cruelty; fierceness; ruthlessness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.
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- noun The state or quality of being
fell ;awfulness ,horror ,cruelty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But surely it sounds very strange, although it may be true enough, to say that this "fellness" is occasioned by "inner entity."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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The damsel was right joyful thereat, albeit she misdoubted the fellness and cruelty of her father, for never yet had she seen knight that pleased her so much to love as he.
The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869
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The fellness of a gloomy hurricane but faintly resembled the discord that reigned in my mind.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated everything but itself.
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And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated everything but itself.
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And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated everything but itself.
House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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The fellness of a gloomy hurricane but faintly resembled the discord that reigned in my mind.
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The fellness of a gloomy hurricane but faintly resembled the discord that reigned in my mind.
Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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