meanness
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Etymology
Noun
meanness (countable and uncountable, plural meannesses)
- (uncountable) The condition, or quality, of being mean (any of its definitions)
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, “Florence”, in Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.
- (countable) A mean act.
- 1908, The World's Work, volume 16, page 10497:
- There are enough meannesses in everyone — ourselves included — to make for us a contemptible world, if we select the meannesses and let our minds dwell upon them.
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the condition or quality of being mean
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a mean act
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References
- “meanness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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