Narrowness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being narrow. uncountable

    "presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to"

  2. 2
    a small margin wordnet
  3. 3
    A constriction; a narrow passage or place; an instance or aspect of being narrow, or having a limited scope or extent. countable
  4. 4
    the property of being narrow; having little width wordnet
  5. 5
    a restriction of range or scope wordnet
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  1. 6
    an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior wordnet

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"presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to"

Etymology

From Middle English narwenesse; equivalent to narrow + -ness.

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