English

Noun

unearthlinesses

1. plural of unearthliness
   • 1861, Joseph Augustus Seiss, The Day of the Lord: A Lecture Delivered in St. John's (Lutheran) Church, Philadelphia, page 41:

     […] not some cold dream-land; where all sensation is attenuated into a spiritual meagreness totally destitute of attractions for mortals; not a mere state, made up of certain unearthlinesses, of which no one can conceive and with which no one can sympathize; but a literal and material world, firm and ponderable as now, girthed and clothed with similar heavens, adorned with sunshine and showers, birds, trees, streams, melody, and flowers

   • 1991, Ad Reinhardt, Art as Art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt, page 187:

     The cult of art-as-art centers around art as a magic, art as a second, or double, or super nature, around art's immolations and unearthlinesses, around art's timelessness, uselessness, and meaninglessness.

   • 2004, Fred Botting and Dale Townshend, Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, page 144:

     After the Martians are defeated, twentieth-century scientists dissect and classify the unearthlinesses of "the most unearthly creatures it is possible to conceive.