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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)
- 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.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 343: