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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 fgf 5 |
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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