Donnishness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being donnish. uncountable
"In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…"
Example
More examples"In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…"
Etymology
From donnish + -ness.
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