Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being feat; dexterity; adroitness; nimbleness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Skill; adroitness.
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- noun archaic
skill ;adroitness
Etymologies
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Examples
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He danced accordingly, with modest maidens, one and another; evermore, three dances with each, and that with a singular featness; insomuch that the wedding guests looked on with admiration and pleasure.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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And good reason it should be so, for coarseness with fineness hath no fellowship, but featness with neatness hath neighbourhood enough.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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And good reason it should be so, for coarseness with fineness hath no fellowship, but featness with neatness hath neighbourhood enough.
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In time therefore -- and that not a long one as times go -- her featness and patience, added to her beauty (for it was not long before the gentler life or the richer possession made her very handsome), won her the regard of everybody in the house.
The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892
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