far
adverb
at or to a great distance; a long way off; at or to a remote point.
farness
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a word derived from
far.
Example Sentences
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But so much the further from Thee, as the unliker Thee; for it is not farness of place.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
Patience taketh flight: * And from parting of friend to sore death I'm dight: O how woeful this farness from dear one, and oh * How my heart is rent by mine own unright!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Starboard loomed, until it was lost in the farness, that coast that we were following, but the three ships were in a half-land, half-water world.
From 1492 by Mary Johnston
But when his face was partly in shadows, particularly about his brow, there was a frightening tone which came into his features; for it was a tone of farness, of mysticism and conjuration.
From Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Peirce
By Love's right! naught of farness thy slave can estrange, viii.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
