shapedness
English edit
Etymology edit
First attested in 1812: shaped + -ness.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: shāp(t)ʹnəs, IPA(key): /ˈʃeɪptnəs/
Noun edit
shapedness (uncountable)
- (in parasynthetic derivatives) The quality of being shaped in the specified manner.
- 1812, July 19th: A. D. M. H. F. S. A., A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects, “A Description of Beasts”, Book I: “Of Quadrupeds, or Four-Footed Beasts”, page 60, “The Elephant”
- The Elephant…[i]s reckoned the most intellectual animal in the creation after man. […] Nature, always impartial in the distribution of her gifts, has given this bulky quadruped a quick instinct nearly approaching to reason, in compensation for the uncouthness and ill-shapedness of his body.
- 1812, July 19th: A. D. M. H. F. S. A., A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects, “A Description of Beasts”, Book I: “Of Quadrupeds, or Four-Footed Beasts”, page 60, “The Elephant”