Meaning of tidyness | Babel Free

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Archaic spelling of tidiness.

alt-of, archaic, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] he then spoke of tidyness, by which he did not mean primness or formality. Tidyness in his garden was a necessity, and formality an abhorrence.”

“The twelve-year-old boys showed preference for aggressiveness, boisterousness, and unkemptness, but by the age of fifteen, the trait tidy or unkempt had become reversed and tidyness showed a positive value.”

“They didn't know discipline, nor did they know cleanliness or tidyness, and you made them into what you yourself had become, rootless and restless.”

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