hoariness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English horynesse; equivalent to hoary + -ness.

His hair was almost gray and perhaps this hoariness and general sedateness betokened a ripe old age. — Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes, Charles Madison Curry
His hoariness is still the same, the same violence {appears} in his features; his eyes are bright as before; {he is still} the same image of ferocity. — The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII, Ovid
The weather, however, must have ultimately compelled what the thickness had required; for by ten o'clock it was blowing a hard gale, with a frequent hoariness of clouds of snow upon the blackness, the seas very high and foaming, and the wind crying madly in the rigging. — The Frozen Pirate, William Clark Russell

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