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Definition of 'deerness'English
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The state or quality of being a deer.
* 2001 , Ross Labrie, Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination , University of Missouri Press (2001), ISBN 0826213820, page 36 :
- Thus, he praised the work of the cave painters and their “contemplative intuition” in portraying the animals in their surroundings, in particular their illumination of the essential being of these animals, their “'deerness ,'” for example.
* 2006 , The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Perspectives on the Steppe Nomads of the Ancient World , Yale University Press (2006), ISBN 9781588392053, page 55 :
- In spite of the general features discussed above, the Filippovka stags remain enigmatic. That they were conceived of as supernatural is shown by their exaggerated features and their gold- and silver-foil covering, as well as by the fact that they are only realistic enough to indicate their “deerness ,” as noted by Farkas.
* 2008 , Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry , Volume 27, Issues 1-3, page 79 :
- that which makes each particular being the very kind of being which it is, e.g., the chair's chairness, the tree's treeness, the sky's skyness, the deer's deerness , or the human's humanness.
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