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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As the Association took to itself a variety of industries; as it added shoemakers, carpenters and farmers to its original stock of intellectual workers, a change took place in the selectness of its society.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
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
The tradition of her selectness received a severe strain in the presence of such hordes of guests.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
The company was not numerous; it was rather remarkable for its selectness.
From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by William Ware
Both are right in preferring what suits them best, the delicacy and selectness of the one, or the fulness and majestic flow of the other.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt
