taperness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
taperness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being tapered; tapering form.
- written a. 1763, William Shenstone, "On Taste", collected in Essays on Men and Manners
- A Corinthian pillar has some beauty dependent on its variety and smoothness; which I would call absolute; it has also a relative beauty, dependent on its taperness and foliage
- written a. 1763, William Shenstone, "On Taste", collected in Essays on Men and Manners
References edit
- “taperness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.