crampnessn.
/ˈkrampnɪs/ State or quality of being cramp or cramped; confinedness.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [noun]
difficultyc1405
mistiheadc1425
darknessc1450
obscureness1509
obscuritya1522
unclearness1574
unplainness1619
abstruseness1628
umbragec1642
abstrusity1649
imperspicuity1659
reconditeness1779
mistiness1816
crampness1840
recondity1856
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > quality of
confinedness1639
crampness1840
1840 Blackwood's Mag. 47 237 Faust feeling nothing but the crampness of his situation.
1859 C. Bathurst Rem. Differ. Shaks. Versif. 182 The use of parenthesis, instead of denoting crampness and entanglement, appears, etc.
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