longness

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The longness or shortness of a syllable another.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

You see, the shortness or longness of them makes the difference in the notes, and the distance between gives the time.

From A Terrible Tomboy by Brazil, Angela

This letter is of too great longness already.

From Seven Maids of Far Cathay by Bing Ding, Ed.

Her face, as I have said, was long and thin, but it was the longness and thinness of growing youth.

From Castle Richmond by Trollope, Anthony

Long faces of the form pictured by No. 12 exaggerate the longness and leanness of their faces by wearing their locks like looped curtains.

From What Dress Makes of Us by Quigley, Dorothy