Definition of Feyness

1. Noun. the state of being fey ¹

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Definition of Feyness

1. the state of being fey [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feyness

fewters
fewtrils
fexinidazole
fexofenadine
fey
feydom
feyed
feyer
feyest
feying
feyly
feyne
feyned
feynes
feyness (current term)
feynesses
feyning
feyre
feyres
feys
fez
fezes
fezlike
fezzed
fezzes
fezzy
ff.
ffrench
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Literary usage of Feyness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Inland Voyage, and Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson, James Cloyd Bowman (1918)
"There are other degrees of feyness, as of punishment, besides the capital; and I was now led by my good spirits into an adventure which I relate in the ..."

2. Shetland Folk-lore by John Spence (1899)
"... or saw a feyness; a white mouse or a black fowl might cross their path. Water from this well must not touch the ground ; hence the vessel containing it ..."

3. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (1910)
"feyness. Madness. Ill, 12-13.—"In a more sacred or sequestered bower," etc. Cf. Milton's Paradise Lost, IV, the description of the bower of Adam and Eve. ..."

4. Dramatic Values by Charles Edward Montague (1911)
"... action and speech are faintly chilled and refined by a touch as of feyness, a melancholy exaltation ; you think of the tunes that Irish bands play until ..."

5. An Inland Voyage, and Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson (1922)
"PAGE 73. feyness: from the old English fey ; " doomed." PAGE 75. " In a more sacred or sequestered bower — nor nymph nor faunus haunted ": a paraphrase of ..."

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