Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being nectareous.
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Examples
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It took me altogether by surprise; for I remembered the nectareousness of the new cider which I used to sip through a straw in my boyhood, and I never doubted that this would be as dulcet, but finer and more ethereal; as much more delectable, in short, as these grapes are better than puckery cider apples.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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It took me altogether by surprise; for I remembered the nectareousness of the new cider which I used to sip through a straw in my boyhood, and I never doubted that this would be as dulcet, but finer and more ethereal; as much more delectable, in short, as these grapes are better than puckery cider apples.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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