• Shapedness

    Pronunciation

    • RP enPR: shāp(t)ʹnÉ™s, IPA: /ˈʃeɪptÌšnÉ™s/

    Origin

    First attested in 1812: shaped + -ness.

    Full definition of shapedness

    Noun

    shapedness

    (uncountable)
    1. (in parasynthetic derivatives) The quality of being shaped in the specified manner.
      • 1812, July 19th: A. D. M. H. F. S. A., A Description of More Than Three Hundred Animals, Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, and Insects, “A Description of Beasts”, Book I: “Of Quadrupeds, or Four-Footed Beasts”, page 60, “The Elephant”The Elephant
    …is reckoned the most intellectual animal in the creation after man. … Nature, always impartial in the distribution of her gifts, has given this bulky quadruped a quick instinct nearly approaching to reason, in compensation for the uncouthness and ill-shapedness of his body.
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