Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being wintry: as, the wintriness of the climate or the season.
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- noun The state or quality of being
wintry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If temperature is any measure of wintriness, it is clear that December has been much colder than average in Washington.
In a rarity, both lunar eclipse and winter solstice to occur Tuesday Martin Weil 2010
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Is this death, a graveyard, or simply winter and the wintriness of the mind that gives itself up to seeing with such selfless clarity?
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If temperature is any measure of wintriness, it is clear that December has been much colder than average in Washington.
In a rarity, both lunar eclipse and winter solstice to occur Tuesday Martin Weil 2010
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I guess somehow -- my old jacket, studiousness, Uncle N sleeping in the living room, wintriness, even the death of John Lennon -- I am reminded of college, which was in many ways a great time of life.
readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2005
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If even there had been sheep munching, pushing one foot after another, or a bird, or a man driving a spade into the earth, had there been a bramble to trip me, or a ditch, damp with soaked leaves, into which to fall — but no, the melancholy path led along the level, to more wintriness and pallor and the equal and uninteresting view of the same landscape.
The Waves 2003
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There is a scepticism whose face is toward wintriness and death; but there is a doubt which is looking toward the sun and toward all blessedness.
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They felt the death again, a whole field laid low by one stroke, and wintriness in the season of glad life.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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They felt the death again, a whole field laid low by one stroke, and wintriness in the season of glad life.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Polar aristocracy, inflicting the woes of wintriness upon us.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Polar aristocracy, inflicting the woes of wintriness upon us.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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