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Generalness vs Generaless - What's the difference?

generalness | generaless |

As nouns the difference between generalness and generaless

is that generalness is the quality of being general, of having wide applicability while generaless is a woman leader, especially military, or wife of a general.

generalness

English

Noun

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  • The quality of being general, of having wide applicability.

    • generaless

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A woman leader, especially military, or wife of a general.
  • * 1886 , Yves Guyot, English and French morality, from a Frenchman's point of view (The Modern Press) pp. 36–37], [http://dds.crl.edu/loadStream.asp?iid=27369 ditto
    • The Generaless Catherine Booth read a letter which she addressed to the Queen, summoning her in the name of her religion and of her sex to dry up the stream of impurity.
  • * 1903 , The Toronto Star'', quoted in ''The Week's Progress: A Select Review of World News & Views , volume 22 p. 191
    • If the Duke of Marlborough becomes Governor-General of Canada the Duchess would be Governor-Generaless , and as she is one of the Vanderbilts, the New York 400 would move over to Ottawa for the winter season, and there would be high jinks in that town.
  • * 1959 , (Saul Bellow), (Henderson the Rain King) (Viking) [http://books.google.com/books?id=9oCHolP7FD0C&lpg=PA198&dq=generaless&pg=PA198#v=onepage&q=generaless&f=false]
    • I tried to shield my nakedness with hands and leaves, but Tatu the amazon generaless , pulled away my fingers and put one of those many-thonged whips into them.
  • * 1975 , (Helena Blavatsky), letter quoted in Howard Murphet, When Daylight Comes: A Biography of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Quest Books) p. 142
    • General and Generaless , six daughters and two sons with four sons-in-law constitute the family of the most terrible atheists and the most flapdoodlish or the most kind Spiritualists.
  • * 1982 , (David McCullough), (Mornings on Horseback) (Simon and Schuster) p. 161
    • Bamie—Bamie “the Major Generaless ,” as Ellie called her—was sent on in advance to Cambridge that summer to find suitable quarters off campus.
  • * 2005 , (w), lecture, 1889–90, first published as "The Social and Political Position of Woman in Ancient Egypt", PMLA (120) No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 843-857 p. 851
    • If it had pleased her Majesty's Ministers to appoint a lady as next successor to Lord Dufferin, for instance, they could scarcely have given her the rank of Governess General—or Governor Generaless of India.
  • * 2014 , (Alberto Savinio), "A Head Goes Flying", in Signor Dido: Stories , Richard Pevear (tr.) (Counterpoint Press), p. 26
    • Back then, Annibale spoke of the tenants with deference. He said "Signor Commendatore Pirco." He said "Her Excellency the generaless Puti di Valmescia" (the tenant of the third floor).

    References

    * Edwin Berck Dike, "The Suffix -ESS, Etc.", The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (36) No. 1 (Jan 1937), pp. 29-34