selectness
- a word derived from select.
Example Sentences
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Like the city of Boston in America, Edinburgh prides itself on the selectness of its society.
From Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure by Stables, Gordon
The company was not numerous; it was rather remarkable for its selectness.
From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William
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 Codman, John Thomas
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 Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
A small one: selectness is the type of cordiality.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
