duskness
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English duskenes, dusknesse; equivalent to dusk + -ness.
Noun edit
duskness (uncountable)
- duskiness
- 1887, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Wandering Jew:
- Darkness had spread her raven pall;
Dank, lurid duskness covered all.
References edit
“duskness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.