thoroughbredness
nounEtymology From thoroughbred + -ness.
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The quality of being thoroughbred.
- It is a call to put on power, to live constructively, to measure up to our inherent thoroughbredness.1926, Richard Lloyd Jones, A Stop at America, page 126:
- In the second place, a standard of quality is necessary, because we all enjoy at times music which lacks thoroughbredness.1946, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Program Notes (part 1, page 57)