locomotiveness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as locomotivity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The power of changing place.

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  • noun Alternative form of locomotivity.

Etymologies

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locomotive +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox halfway.

    Walking 1969

  • Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

    Walking 1914

  • Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

    Walking [1862] 1909

  • Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox halfway.

    Walking 1862

  • Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

    Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839

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