Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being homelike.
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Examples
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And in some dim way there was a homelikeness about these lands, as if he had known them once long before.
Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953
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Mrs. Bailey had given them a few things to add to the homelikeness of their living-rooms, and they were quite comfortably settled, and getting along as happily as could be asked for.
The Hero of Hill House Mabel Hale
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In the days of their happy summer life, lived in great simplicity and homelikeness, the Crown Princess once wrote, in a little pavilion here, --
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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The "Merry Maid," riding out on the waves near the spot where they had first found refuge, had given their shore almost a homelikeness.
Madge Morton's Secret Amy D. V. Chalmers
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Bosse one will see that the rooms have an air of homelikeness as well as richness.
Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop
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The rough clapboards and beams of the ceiling and walls had never been plastered, and this very crudity seemed somehow to give the room an air of warmth and homelikeness that was very inviting.
The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls Laura Lee Hope
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They generally attributed the homelikeness to Lucille, who was dangerously near looking matronly, rather than to Marjorie, who would be more like a firefly than a matron even when she became a grandmother.
I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931
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She had only seen two rooms of the Hewitt house, and that when they were dressed out of all homelikeness, because of the reception.
The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931
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The rough clapboards and beams of the ceiling and walls had never been plastered, and this very crudity seemed somehow to give the room an air of warmth and homelikeness that was very inviting.
The outdoor girls at Wild Rose lodge; or, The hermit of Moonlight falls 1921
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In spite of the simplicity and the homelikeness of the Harvard with eight hundred undergraduates, however, it was large enough to afford the opportunity of meeting men of many different tastes and men from all parts of the country.
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919
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