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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