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Gauntness   /gˈɔntnəs/   Listen
Gauntness

noun
1.
Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease).  Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, maceration.





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"Gauntness" Quotes from Famous Books



... for Agrippa, under grated windows with arms of Frangipanni or Colonna, and pillars that Apollodorus raised; to go into the great courts of palaces, murmurous with the fall of water, and fresh with green leaves and golden fruit, that rob the colossal statues of their gloom and gauntness, and thence into the vast chambers where the greatest dreams that men have ever had, are written on panel and on canvas, and the immensity and the silence of them all are beautiful and eloquent with dead men's legacies to the living, where ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
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Words linked to "Gauntness" :   spareness, leanness, emaciation, gaunt, maceration, thinness


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