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setness - What does it mean?

Definition of 'setness'

English

Noun

  • The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.
  • * R. Masters
  • the starched setness of a sententious writer
  • * (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
  • They who had shrugged their shoulders at her little peculiarities and setnesses acknowledged that now she was the exact person that was wanted.