Adjective : a select group of friends. From Dictionary.com.
The Believers 'Rally, as will be understood, was a gathering of some selectness. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
Sicilian, or Græco-Sicilian vases, though inferior in number and selectness to those of the Vatican, or Museo-Borbonico. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
It was in many ways an inspiration; it gave him zeal, a Puritan word much ridiculed by the Royalists; it gave refinement, distinction, selectness, elevation to his picture of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Henry A. Beers (1847-1926)] Reference
All the mining exhibits -- in their selectness and profusion -- gave evidence of the inexhaustible wealth yet stored up for man's future uses notwithstanding the geological fact, that the earth's crust has no great profundity compared with its diameter. From Wordnik.com. [By Water to the Columbian Exposition] Reference
For this there were a number of reasons, but the paramount one was the fact that Mr. Lispenard was descended from one of the oldest houses among the Knickerbockers, and as such it was extremely difficult for him to become aware of any one not sprung with equal selectness. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
'Select audience be hanged! it's this very selectness that is no selectness, that makes your English and a part of our American society a dreary bore,' broke in Caper; 'I've come up here in the mountains to be free, and if the Gonfaloniere bids me welcome to a palace where the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
America, Edinburgh prides itself on the selectness of its society. From Wordnik.com. [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference
The company was not numerous; it was rather remarkable for its selectness. From Wordnik.com. [Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century] Reference
The tradition of her selectness received a severe strain in the presence of such hordes of guests. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
It was a very wise custom, for it furnished protection to the womankind of the officials and gave greater selectness to their revels. From Wordnik.com. [The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke] Reference
A little spurt there was, back towards his own home, just enough to give something of selectness to the few who saw him fall, and then he fell. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
A little spurt there was, back towards his own home, -- just enough to give something of selectness to the few who saw him fall, -- and then he fell. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
A little spurt there was, back towards his own home, — just enough to give something of selectness to the few who saw him fall, — and then he fell. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds]
The "Hotel Soledad" asserted its selectness by the announcement: "En este hotel no se admiten compañías de cómicos ni toreros," but the solitude of its wooden-floored beds at least was distinctly broken and often. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
What a picture! — what simplicity of means! what largeness and perfectness of effect! — what knowledge and love of nature! what supreme art! — what modesty and submission! what self-possession! — what plainness, what selectness of speech!. From Wordnik.com. [Spare Hours] Reference
If there were a Cabell Club of membership determined solely by the number of those who, already possessing THE CORDS OF VANITY in its first edition, recognize it as the work of a serious artist of high achievement and higher capacity, I suspect that the smallness of that club would be in inordinate disproportion to everything but its selectness and its members 'pride in "belonging". From Wordnik.com. [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference
That cost, some hundreds of dollars (I have forgotten the exact number) sure wasn’t worth the selectness of the Times. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Unpaywall] Reference
A very wise custom, for it furnished protection to the womankind of the officials and gave greater selectness to their revels. From Wordnik.com. [The Scorn of Women] Reference
Mr. Stewart's collection of works, in all the branches of a theological library, ranks high, both for number and selectness, among the very best in the country. ". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849] Reference
We are not disappointed, for we have here the same selectness of language, the same high, pure tone, the same delicate power of touching the deeper chords of thought and feeling, which have previously won our attention and sympathy. ". From Wordnik.com. [Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts] Reference
Zuleika, share and bless my bark, "&c. -- a strain of poetry, which, for energy and tenderness of thought, for music of versification, and selectness of diction, has, throughout the greater portion of it, but few rivals in either ancient or modern song. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference
Society is to be its selectness. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference
selectness, about this part of town. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
Behold the very acme of selectness! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
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