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Webster 1828 Edition


Lukewarmness

LU'KEWARMNESS

, n.
1.
A mild or moderate heat.
2.
Indifference; want of zeal or ardor; coldness.
The defect of zeal is lukewarmness, or coldness in religion.

Definition 2024


lukewarmness

lukewarmness

English

Noun

lukewarmness (countable and uncountable, plural lukewarmnesses)

  1. The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 343:
      Sazonov was furious at the lukewarmness of the British and French reactions to Russia's protests.