arrestiveness
nounEtymology From arrestive + -ness.
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Dated The quality of being arrestive.
- 1910, Douglas Sladen, “An Appreciation” in Yoshio Markino, A Japanese Artist in London, London: Chatto & Windus, p. vii, […] Mr. Markino in his quaint English has sometimes an arrestiveness almost equal to Thomas Carlyle’s. There is real style in it. He has evolved a grammar of his own which is strikingly effective.