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elmness en · NOUN

Etymology

From elm + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being an elm tree.
    • We seem to have become similarly obsessed, abandoning particular, familiar trees in favour of a kind of abstract notion of elmness. 1979, December 13, New Scientist, Vol. 84, No. 1185, page 895
    • The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness. 2004, François Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Crime Fictions: Subverted Codes and New Structures, page 2:
    • This is because, when we infer the absence of smoke from the non-apprehension of fire or the absence of elmness from the non-apprehension of tree, we not only prove the negative activities concerning them, but also the absence itself. 2007, Madhumita Chattopadhyay, Walking Along The Paths Of Buddhist Epistemology, page 171:
    • They were spectral, with all vestige of elmness leached back to the soil by the winter rains: twigs and bark gone from each one, leaving only a pale and spiky skeleton. 1983, Tom Vernon, Fat Man on a Roman Road: A Bicycle Exploration of Britain, page 129: