elmness
nounEtymology From elm + -ness.
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The quality of being an elm tree.
- We seem to have become similarly obsessed, abandoning particular, familiar trees in favour of a kind of abstract notion of elmness.1979, December 13, New Scientist, Vol. 84, No. 1185, page 895
- They were spectral, with all vestige of elmness leached back to the soil by the winter rains: twigs and bark gone from each one, leaving only a pale and spiky skeleton.1983, Tom Vernon, Fat Man on a Roman Road: A Bicycle Exploration of Britain, page 129:
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- The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness.2004, François Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Crime Fictions: Subverted Codes and New Structures, page 2:
- This is because, when we infer the absence of smoke from the non-apprehension of fire or the absence of elmness from the non-apprehension of tree, we not only prove the negative activities concerning them, but also the absence itself.2007, Madhumita Chattopadhyay, Walking Along The Paths Of Buddhist Epistemology, page 171: