"limberness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: limber + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|limber|ness}} limber + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} limberness (uncountable)
  1. Property of being limber. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-limberness-en-noun-0O8VNz9Q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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          "ref": "1860 October, James Russell Lowell, “The Election in November”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume VI, number 36, page 496",
          "text": "To achieve so desirable an end, its leaders are ready to coalesce, here with the Douglas, and there with the Breckinridge faction of that very Democratic party of whose violations of the Constitution, corruption, and dangerous limberness of principle they have been the lifelong denouncers.",
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