Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being mettlesome or spirited.
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- noun The quality of being
mettlesome .
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- noun courageous high-spiritedness
Etymologies
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mettlesome + -ness
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Examples
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By prancing over imaginary difficulties and shying at imaginary dangers he gives an impression of mettlesomeness which is foreign to his native disposition.
Humanly Speaking Samuel McChord Crothers
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In the case of mettlesomeness which may be mistaken for appetite, of heat which may appear to be haste, no con - clusions may be drawn.
Two Poems 1920
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