Usage examples (12)

• And above the organ rose the notes of a voice; high, soft, enveloped in a kind of downiness, like a cloud of incense, and which ran through the mazes of a long cadence.
• The habit of the shrub is densely bushy, and the foliage has a greyish green colour from its downiness.
• Heads that are so downy soft as to keep my hand in motion, patting, stroking, taking and giving comfort at the same time as it is drawn to the tenderness of skin, the...
• He is determined by his gestural artistry and resilient thistle-downiness to "sanction and fortify the natural human passion for believing that life can somehow, behind...