summerliness

English

Etymology

summerly +‎ -ness

Noun

summerliness (uncountable)

(rare) The quality or state of being like summer.
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
  Some will have it so called from the summerliness, or temperate pleasantness thereof

References

“summerliness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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