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Raininess

noun
1.
(of weather) the badness of the weather.  Synonym: foulness.






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"Raininess" Quotes from Famous Books



... said I, 'everything shows through this Atlantic atmosphere. The intensity of colouring may vie with that of the shores of the Mediterranean. The very raininess of the climate, by condensing the moisture into an ever-changing phantasmagoria of clouds, leaves the clear air and sunshine, when we do get a glimpse of them, all the ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley

... forehead! Some of them might even have done murderous execution in Bradley's own camp: for instance, this pebble cast playfully at the metaphysical idol called "Law": "It is always wet on half-holidays because of the Law of Raininess, but sometimes it is not wet, because of ...
— Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy - Five Essays • George Santayana



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