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yellowness|ˈjɛləʊnɪs|
Forms: see yellow a.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality or state of being yellow; yellow colour.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. vi. (Bodl. MS.), Aristotel seith ȝelownes of yȝen is meuynge of feblenes. a1400Chaucer Purse 11 That I..may..see your colour lyke the sonne bryght That of yelownesse hadde neuere pere. c1460Promp Parv. 548 Ȝelhewnesse, glavcedo. c1475Partenay 3887 Adieu, my lady, with heres yowlownesse! a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. Wks. 1724 II. 739 A dark yellowness dying his Skin. 1663Dryden Rival Ladies iii. i, Like the Sun (ev'n while Eclips'd) she casts A Yellowness upon all other Faces. 1765Delaval in Phil. Trans. LV. 17 note m, The Hyacinth is a stone..which is red with a certain yellowness. 1844Kinglake Eothen viii, Doctors will tell you that the drinking of milk gives yellowness to the complexion. 1889Chamb. Jrnl. 30 Nov. 760/1 There is a solidity and yellowness about Jupiter's light.
†2. fig. Jealousy: see yellow a. 2. Obs.
1598Shakes. Merry W. i. iii. 111, I will incense Ford to deale with poyson: I will possesse him with yallownesse. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iii. i. ii. (1651) 606 The undiscreet carriage of some..gallant..may..if he be inclined to yellowness, colour him quite. |