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mellowness|ˈmɛləʊnɪs|
[f. mellow a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being mellow, in various senses of the adj.
1530Palsgr. 244/2 Melownesse, mevreté. 1647Trapp Comm. 2 Pet. iii. 18 Grow..as an apple doth in mellownesse. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 350 This perfects the Sweetness and Mellowness of the Malt. 1742Abp. Hort Instr. Clergy of Tuam 9 Suaviloquentia, that mellowness and sweetness of speaking so much praised in some of the Roman orators, in opposition to the rusticity of noisy declaimers. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. i. i. (ed. Rae) 148 She wants that delicacy of Tint—and mellowness of sneer—which distinguish your Ladyship's Scandal. 1787J. Croft Treat. Wines Portugal 5 Red Wines of a superior mellowness or body. 1805W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) I. 157 In the tender scenes he [Kemble] wanted mellowness. 1882Traill in Morley Gladstone (1904) III. viii. vi. 91 The tang of the wood brings out the mellowness of a rare old wine. 1884Harper's Mag. Feb. 349/1 A mellowness of light and shade unattainable in marble. |