"elfness" meaning in English

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          "text": "illuming lost towers, illuming\nhidden recess and excess selfness,\nlight on the mind's stark glooming\nwith her light airy elfness[.]",
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          "text": "That, of course, would make Men a younger, less evolved, and in some ways less spiritual form of humanness (or \"Elfness,\" rather).",
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          "text": "He'd once had his ears docked - as all elves of his generation had - but a spell had returned them to their natural, pointy-arched elfness to match both Lucy's and Ray's.",
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