Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Breadth of beam: as, a ship of great beaminess.
- noun Radiance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being beamy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
beamy .
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Examples
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Forgive my pride, dear Sir; but it would be almost a crime in your Pamela not to exult in the mild benignity of those rays, by which her beloved Mr.B. endeavours to make her look up to his own sunny sphere: while she, by the advantage only of his reflected glory, in his absence, which makes a dark night to her, glides along with her paler and fainter beaminess, and makes a distinguishing figure among such lesser planets, as can only poorly twinkle and glimmer, for want of the aid she boasts of.
Pamela 2006
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