Jaguarness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being a jaguar. uncountable

    "Hughes draws on this ancient concept and suggests that the jaguar calls up his rage to wear himself out from within to annihilate and free himself from his condition of enslavement — not to the bars but to his condition of 'jaguarness' which imprisons him […]"

Example

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"Hughes draws on this ancient concept and suggests that the jaguar calls up his rage to wear himself out from within to annihilate and free himself from his condition of enslavement — not to the bars but to his condition of 'jaguarness' which imprisons him […]"

Etymology

From jaguar + -ness.

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