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Webster 1913 Edition


Earliness

Ear′li-ness

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Noun.
The state of being early or forward; promptness.

Webster 1828 Edition


Earliness

EARLINESS

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Noun.
er'liness. [See Early and Ere.]
A state of advance or forwardness; a state of being before anything, or at the beginning; as the earliness of rising in the morning is a rising at the dawn of the morning, or before the usual time of rising. So we speak of the earliness of spring, or the earliness of plants, to express a state somewhat in advance of the usual time of spring, or growth of plants.

Definition 2024


earliness

earliness

English

Noun

earliness (countable and uncountable, plural earlinesses)

  1. The condition of being early.

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