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chillness|ˈtʃɪlnɪs|
[f. chill a. + -ness.]
Chill quality or condition.
1. Unpleasant coldness, chilling quality.
1598Florio, Gelidezza, coldnesse, chilnesse, freasing, frost. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 29 The exceeding chilnesse of the aire. 1784Johnson Lett. 21 Apr., Not caring to venture the chillness of the evening. 1868Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 41 After so much stormy chillness.
2. The sensation of cold; the state of being unpleasantly cold and shivering.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 294/1 If it [the plague] take him with..chillness..cover him well that he may sweate. 1626Bacon Sylva §793 There followeth a chilness or Shivering in all the Body. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman (1841) I. vii. 47 He cannot think of it but as we do of the grave, with a chillness in the blood and a tremour in the spirits. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 639 When cold bathing occasions chilness..it ought to be discontinued. 1823Scott Peveril xxxv, The chillness of his ankles.
3. fig. Absence of warmth of temperament, feeling, or manner; want of zeal or interest.
1638O. Sedgwicke Serm. (1639) 93 Why that remissenesse and chilnesse to encourage..the exercise of Armes? 1701Whitehead Truth Prevalent 59 Under such Chilness of Zeal. 1754Johnson Life Cave Wks. IV. 529 The same chilness of mind was observable in his conversation. 1846Hawthorne Mosses ii. iii. (1864) 68 The chillness of his moral atmosphere. |