leanness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English lenenesse, equivalent to lean + -ness.

I do confess my leanness. — McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey
His leanness flies, being expelled; his paleness and squalor are gone. — The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII, Ovid
"They had their request," but God, in his retributive justice, "sent leanness into their souls." — A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon : For the Use of Schools and Colleges, Lord, John

meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity

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