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Webster 1913 Edition
Moistness
Moist′ness
,Noun.
The quality or state of being moist.
Webster 1828 Edition
Moistness
MOIST'NESS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
moistness
moistness
English
Noun
moistness (countable and uncountable, plural moistnesses)
- The property of being moist.
- (obsolete) Moisture.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- The moistnesse which the roote of a tree suckes becomes a trunke, a leafe, and fruite: And the aire being but one, applied unto a trumpet, becommoth diverse in a thousand sorts of sounds.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: