longness
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The longness or shortness of a vowel is one thing.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
His coat should be lengthened, as in sketch go, to cut off just as much of the longness of limb as can possibly be allowed without destroying artistic proportions.
From What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley
"But there's nothing beautiful about longness," persisted Mollie.
From The Happy Adventurers by Lydia Miller Middleton
And the longness or shortness of a vowel or syllable is said to be its quantity.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The V-shaped arrangement, either in cut or trimmings, apparently increases her "longness and leanness."
From What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley
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