Burglariousness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the state or quality of being burglarious. uncountable

    "I say that I should not have been so sorry if the breeze had set the other way; if honest Will Wareham had tapped your belly, Tom, instead of being forced to put up with your burglariousness upon his'n."

Example

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"I say that I should not have been so sorry if the breeze had set the other way; if honest Will Wareham had tapped your belly, Tom, instead of being forced to put up with your burglariousness upon his'n."

Etymology

From burglarious + -ness.

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