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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The quality of being oak, or of being an oak tree. uncountable

   "The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness."

Example

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"The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness."

Etymology

From oak + -ness.

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