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Definition of Spruceness
1. Noun. The state of being neat and smart and trim.
Generic synonyms: Tidiness
Specialized synonyms: Trim, Trimness
Derivative terms: Spruce
Definition of Spruceness
1. Noun. The property of being spruce, of being neat and elegant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spruceness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spruceness
Literary usage of Spruceness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rise and Progress of the Killerby, Studley and Warlaby by William Carr (1867)
"that is Ann, faithful Ann, that white-bibbed paragon of natty spruceness — the
housekeeper. She came nobody knows how many years ago, to nurse the former ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1843)
"... the splendet focus was interpreted to express the neatness and spruceness of
the dwelling: " it signifies properly," says Dacier, " My house has been a ..."
3. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus, John Wilson (1913)
"In the mean time all that nastiness seems absolute spruceness, that Stench a
Perfume, and that miserable ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... a tailor-like spruceness, a peculiar garb in all their proceedings ; choicer
than ordinary in his diet, and as 4 Hierome well describes such a one to ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"Now, in the time of spruceness, our plays follow the niceness of our garments;
single plots, quaint conceits, lecherous jests, drest up in hanging sleeves: ..."
6. Publications by Oriental Translation Fund (1897)
"... a thick bunch of flowers, kissing his short topknot, added a touch of spruceness,
the glow of his lips had been heightened by several applications of ..."
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