Meaning of elmness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being an elm tree.

uncountable

Examples

“We seem to have⟳ become⟳ similarly obsessed, abandoning particular, familiar trees in favour of a kind of abstract notion of elmness.”

“They were spectral, with all vestige of elmness leached back to the soil by the winter rains: twigs and bark gone from each one, leaving only a pale and spiky skeleton.”

“The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness.”

“This is because, when we infer the absence of smoke⟳ from the non-apprehension of fire or the absence of elmness from the non-apprehension of tree, we not only prove⟳ the negative activities concerning them, but also the absence itself.”

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