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ghostliness|ˈgəʊstlɪnɪs|
[f. ghostly a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being ghostly.
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†a. Spirituality, spiritual-mindedness; in early use quasi-concr. Spiritual matters (obs.).
b. nonce-use. The condition or quality of being a ‘ghostly’ or ecclesiastical person. arch.
a1300Cursor M. 6449 To þaa [sc. wranges] þat gret birþin bar, Namli þat fel to gastli-nes, Suld vissed be thoru moyses. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. iv, Other chaungyng felyst þou none fro flesshlynes into ghostlines. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 1 b, Shall be ryght delectable & pleasaunt, specially to all them that loueth goostlynes. 1799–1805Wordsw. Prelude vi. 428 That frame of social being, which so long Had bodied forth the ghostliness of things In silence visible and perpetual calm. 1893J. Baldw. Brown Stoics & Saints v. 122 This intrusion of a ghostly man of an inferior order of ghostliness, would cause some soreness in the monastery.
2. The quality or condition of being a ghost, of resembling a ghost or its qualities, also, of being filled with ghosts.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxi. (1856) 266 One of them..told me, with an utter unconsciousness of his own ghostliness, that I was the palest of the party. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. II. 72 There are conceptions of an abode of the dead characterised not so much by dreaminess as by ghostliness. 1883Harper's Mag. June 131/1 Here among these hills with all their ghostliness she would haunt me. 1896Jessopp Frivola x. 164 Think of the accumulation of facilities for ghostliness here. |