fell
verb
simple past tense of fall.
fellness
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a word derived from
fell.
Example Sentences
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Those who had horses dismounted as they came in sight of the house, and the whole body of them came straight on with a fellness of purpose that augured the worst.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram
But surely it sounds very strange, although it may be true enough, to say that this "fellness" is occasioned by "inner entity."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
A tricky man; cunning enough, your King of Prussia!" thinks Bruhl, with a fellness of humor against Friedrich which is little conceivable to us now: "Cunning enough.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
Our bane turn'd to a blessing!—Death, disarm'd, Loses his fellness quite.—All thanks to him Who scourged the venom out!—Sure the last end Of the good man is peace!—How calm his exit!
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George
And it rendered his aspect not the less, but more frightful, that it seemed not to express wrath or hatred, but a certain hot fellness of purpose, which annihilated everything but itself.
From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
