Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dustiness; powder; the state of being dusted over, powdery, or pulverulent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or characteristic of being
powdery ordusty .
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Examples
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The language is a wild mixture of vaquero-cowboy Spanglish and the King James Bible — you ' ll find words like " pulverulence " and " sudorific, " and one character says, without a shred of irony: " Lo, would you behold what has arrived?
Southwestern Gothic Sam Sacks 2010
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The result is that even when I would exclaim over a new-to-me word (“Did you know that ‘pulverulence’ means an ‘abundance of dust’?”), it was never in the context of actually using the word—only proofing it, rendering it, clipping it, highlighting it, making it findable.
Losing Discoveries—So Others Can Find Them - Public Books Ruby Ray Daily 2022
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