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Definition of Silentness
1. n. State of being silent; silence.
Definition of Silentness
1. Noun. (archaic or nonstandard) silence ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Silentness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silentness
Literary usage of Silentness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1874)
"Amid a death-like silentness of breeze and sky and sea, Beneath a brilliant tropic
night they left the Golden Bee ; And when they saw the blackened wreck ..."
2. Perpetual Light: A Memorial by William Rose Benét (1919)
"... She who had loved all children And all high things and clean Turned away to
silentness And bliss unseen. Rending, blinding anguish, Is all a man can ..."
3. Composition and Rhetoric by Maude Radford Warren (1903)
"Here the italicized details all contribute to the effect of bright stillness or
silentness. They are sufficient to give a unified impression without the ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1896)
"BP still: the crown of life is silentness. Give thou n quiet hour to each long day.
Too much of time we spend in profitless And foolish talk—too little elo ..."
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