Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being
northern .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being to the north
Etymologies
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northern + -ness.
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Examples
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I loved them for many reasons – for their melodies, of course, and for their humour and their wit, and for their northernness.
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True to my roots, I pronounce bath with the TRAP vowel as John Wells says in Accents of English, it would seem a denial of my northernness to change this.
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It leads back, for example, to ideas about the nature of northernness, to the Idea of North
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But Hockney, to whom success came early, swiftly became the nice gay-boy-next-door, with his bleached thatch and owlish glasses; his down-to-earth northernness undoubtedly helped.
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