swarthness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
swarthness (uncountable)
- Archaic form of swarthiness.
- c. 1766, anonymous author, Elegy on the late right honourable William Pitt, esquire:
- Or where parch'd Afric vehemently glows,
In all the swarthness of autumnal fires
References edit
- “swarthness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.