Neat-handedness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being neat-handed. uncountable

    "Throughout all these trifling actions the natural grace, delicacy, and prim neat-handedness of the woman still waited mechanically on the most useless and aimless of her occupations of the moment."

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"Throughout all these trifling actions the natural grace, delicacy, and prim neat-handedness of the woman still waited mechanically on the most useless and aimless of her occupations of the moment."

Etymology

From neat-handed + -ness.

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