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Definition of Burliness
1. n. Quality of being burly.
Definition of Burliness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being burly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Burliness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burliness
Literary usage of Burliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Clough was five feet ten in height, well made, inclining to burliness; he had a
handsome frank face, dark-eyed, full- chinned and ruddy complexioned, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"PILTON is inclined to burliness and baldness. He likes putting his hands in his
pocket« and objecting. Not much ever comes of his objecting, and very little ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"His strength is the strength of burliness and bottom, which requires above all
things freedom of movement ; the necessary constraint should therefore be as ..."
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