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maiden-auntishness en · NOUN

Etymology

From maiden-auntish + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being maiden-auntish.
    • I am afraid I have no use for the nice, tepid people, or that milk and water maiden-auntishness which primly reproves colour and passion. 1940, Warwick Deeping, chapter 30, in The Man Who Went Back, London: Cassell, page 326: