What does donnishness mean?
Donnishness means The quality of being donnish..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The quality of being donnish..
In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…
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Donnishness means The quality of being donnish..
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In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…
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