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Whiteness   /wˈaɪtnəs/  /hwˈaɪtnəs/   Listen
Whiteness

noun
1.
The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black).  Synonym: white.
2.
The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil.  Synonyms: innocence, pureness, purity, sinlessness.
3.
Lightness or fairness of complexion.





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"Whiteness" Quotes from Famous Books



... little more than half the elevation of some of the chalk precipices of the Isle of Wight,—which, at Freshwater, rise from the bosom of the blue ocean with a perpendicular face of the most dazzling whiteness, the sublime altitude of more than 600 feet!—being nearly one-half higher than the pinnacles either of St. Paul's ...
— Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight • George Brannon
... nature, and the child's criticism of a portrait—"Why is one side of the face black?" is answered. There was a half length nude figure of a girl. How the round fresh breasts palpitate in the light! such a glorious glow of whiteness was attained never before. But we saw nothing except that the eyes ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore
... the Spaniards, the whiteness of their skins, their beards, their arms, and the vast machines that seemed to move upon the waters with wings, which they supposed had, during the night, risen out of the sea, or come down from the clouds; ...
— Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia • Samuel Griswold Goodrich
... mirrored reflection of the alders; from their viscous leaves exuded a bitter perfume, and their intense blackness cut sharply the pale luminousness of the water. Near the dam fish glided past in swarms. An angelus beat against the torrid whiteness of a church-steeple with its blue wing, ...
— Romance of the Rabbit • Francis Jammes
... of that perfect, waxen whiteness that goes with burnished red hair and the darkest of dilated violet eyes. Her delicately chiselled features wore what might have been a somewhat too decided impress of spirit and independence, had it not been for the sweet mouth, ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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