swimmingness
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Etymology edit
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swimmingness (uncountable)
- The act or state of swimming; suffusion.
- 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 36:
- You ſee that Picture has a ſort of a—Ha Foible? A ſwimmineſs in the Eyes— [...]