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fellness en · NOUN

Etymology

From fell + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
    • For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe, / And said, Caytiue, cursse on thy cruell hond [...]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: