Crossword clues for portliness
portliness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portliness
Portliness \Port"li*ness\, n.
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The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.
Such pride is praise; such portliness is honor.
--Spenser. Bulkiness; corpulence.
Wiktionary
portliness
n. The quality of being portly
Usage examples of "portliness".
Like Lord Unwin, Henry Calder Rackham appears to have made an abrupt transition from portliness to fat, during the same passage of time in which William has transformed himself from an effete good-for-nothing into a captain of industry.