Definition of Mercurialness

1. Noun. Quality of being mercurial; mercuriality. ¹

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Definition of Mercurialness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercurialness

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mercurial phosphorus
mercurial stomatitis
mercurial tremor
mercurialentis
mercurialism
mercurialist
mercurialists
mercurialities
mercuriality
mercurialize
mercurialized
mercurializes
mercurializing
mercurially
mercurialness (current term)
mercurialnesses
mercurials
mercuriation
mercuriations
mercuribenzoates
mercuric
mercuric chloride
mercuric iodide
mercuric oleate
mercuric oxide
mercuric reductase
mercuric salicylate
mercuric sulfide
mercurico-

Literary usage of Mercurialness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"We shall mention these, among numerous instances of metaphorical jargon, The ' mercurialness of temper.' « The kins felt thut he xas a man, and the cheerly ..."

2. Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Early English Poet: Including Memoirs of His by William Godwin (1804)
"He was sober, sagacious and penetrating; with no mercurialness of temper calculated to involve him in disgrace, and no wanderings of theory or of fancy, ..."

3. Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Early English Poet: Including Memoirs of His by William Godwin (1803)
"It is easy for us to raise up to our imagination the character of a man of this sort. He was sober, sagacious and penetrating ; with no mercurialness ..."

4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1867)
"... —mercurialness—fastness—and so forth, which is found in the composition of every branch of tho family, predominated consummately in a young blood, ..."

5. Doré: By a Stroller in Europe by W. W. Wright (1857)
"A Parisian crowd is the most good-natured and amiable in the world to a certain point, but the nervous sensibility and mercurialness of the people carry ..."

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