frigid
adjective
very cold in temperature.
frigidness
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a word derived from
frigid.
Example Sentences
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Its solemnity and frigidness mean it is also a place with a strong ethic of live-and-let-live.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017
Thus the golden Fate turns and keeps turning; it is only when, through frigidness or fear, we refuse to revolve with it, that there ensues the discord of despair.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
Friction produces fire, and when there are wise hands to supply suitable material on both sides, a genial glowing heat is the result, which thaws out the frigidness that otherwise might exist.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
About them now was frigidness of death,—and silence tremendous….A gold flame kindled in the east.
From In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn
The cloisters old, expounded on their walls With paintings, the Beatic Verity, The which—adorning their religious halls, Enriched the frigidness of their Austerity.
From The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
