The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chillness
Chillness \Chill"ness\, n. Coolness; coldness; a chill.
Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn.
--Longfellow.
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chillness
n. the state of being chilly
Usage examples of "chillness".
Whilst the cold hand gathers its scanty fruit, Whose chillness struck a canker to its root.
Her imagination refused any longer the controul of reason, and, turning her eyes, a figure, whose exact form she could not distinguish, appeared to pass along an obscure part of the chamber: a dreadful chillness came over her, and she sat fixed in her chair.
The very sound of that chanting, albeit in an unknown tongue, seemed to suspend the heartward flowing of his veins, and to set the tomb's chillness in his marrow.