What does "whiteness" mean?
Whiteness: Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek." Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness. He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. Byron.
- 3.Nakedness. [Obs.] Chapman.
- 4.(Zoöl.) A flock of swans.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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