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Meaning of MUCHNESS

Pronunciation:  'muchnis

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  (archaic) greatness of quantity or measure or extent
 
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 See Also: magnitude

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Much"ness\, n.
Greatness; extent. [Obs. or Colloq.]
      The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth.
                                               --W. Whately.
{Much of a muchness}, much the same. [Colloq.] ``Men's men;
   gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.'' --G.
   Eliot.
 

 

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