select
verb (used with object)
to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
selectness
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a word derived from
select.
Example Sentences
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Piero’s earlier style was energetic but unrefined, and to the last he lacked selectness of form and feature.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
It revolutionised his idea of the Explorers’ Club’s extreme selectness, of its social purity.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
Art is in its essence aristocratic, it strives after selectness, eschews the trivial and the trite.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Arthur Rickett
It was a very wise custom, for it furnished protection to the womankind of the officials and gave greater selectness to their revels.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London
It is to this magic name, probably, that the town owes its numerous magnificent temples, and the selectness of the Brahmans who inhabit the banks of the river.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
