Word Meanings - DESERTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A deserted condition. "The desertness of the country." Udall.

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• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• DESERT
  That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• DESERTLESSLY
  Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl.
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• COUNTRY BANK
  A national bank not in a reserve city.
• DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE
  A feminine deserter. Milton.
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• COUNTRYWOMAN
  A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.
• DESERTFUL
  Meritorious. Beau. & Fl.
• COUNTRY-BASE
  See BASE
• CONDITIONALLY
  In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
• UPCOUNTRY
  In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.