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Definition of Fellness
1. n. The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.
Definition of Fellness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fellness
1. extreme cruelty [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fellness
Literary usage of Fellness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker, John Longmuir (1902)
"Nay, the propriety of this orthography makes it almost impossible to root it out
entirely, and we find these four words, illness, fellness, shrillness ..."
2. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not
to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Thus, in his bosom, every weak excess, The rage of grief, the fellness of revenue,
To healthful measure temper'd and reduc'd By Virtue's hand ; and in her ..."
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