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ˈdismalness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being dismal; depressing dreariness or gloom; dolefulness.
1620Shelton Quix. III. xxxiv. 245 The Night came on..not so light and calm..but a certain Dismalness it had. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 42 All the dismalnes..should be over, as soon as the interruption of those radiant rayes were remooved. 1832Examiner 65/1 He is like to the raven in..the dismalness of his croak. 1879Black Macleod of D. xv, The dismalness of being alone here..eats more and more into my heart. |
