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thoroughbredness
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English
Etymology
From thoroughbred + -ness.
Noun
thoroughbredness (uncountable)
- The quality of being thoroughbred.
- 1926, Richard Lloyd Jones, A Stop at America, page 126:
- It is a call to put on power, to live constructively, to measure up to our inherent thoroughbredness.
- 1946, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Program Notes (part 1, page 57)
- In the second place, a standard of quality is necessary, because we all enjoy at times music which lacks thoroughbredness.
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