Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being rainy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being rainy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or condition of being
rainy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (of weather) the badness of the weather
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Examples
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A raininess envelops you already in the womb, that water that began in the mouth, away from any explanation, reason, or speech, seeking the dear loveable blood of our youth.
erection standing up in eternity Jerry Ratch 2011
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The very raininess of the climate, by condensing the moisture into an ever-changing phantasmagoria of clouds, leaves the clear air and sunshine, when we do get a glimpse of them, all the more pure and transparent. '
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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With hl 2040 printer regionally as ribwort, recalculation, southerly jellyroll, raininess, apoplectiform web bernini, aesthetic, mattress fickleness and revoltingly protractedly.
Rational Review 2009
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