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Erectness

noun
1.
The property of being upright in posture.  Synonym: uprightness.
2.
Position at right angles to the horizon.  Synonyms: uprightness, verticality, verticalness.






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"Erectness" Quotes from Famous Books



... little, wistful face relaxing from the hard-knot expression, so to speak, of sour and serious suffering, and assuming something akin to baby joyousness, and the small, warped figure, so low that it walked under my dropped and level hand, acquiring security of step and erectness of bearing. I knew little of the treatment required for spinal disease, but common-sense taught me that, in order to effect a cure, the vertebral column must be relieved as much as possible from pressure, and allowed to rest. So I persuaded him to lie down a great part ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... of his stirring, a figure came out from the farther shadow. It was that of a man. Jerry looked at him in silence. He was tall, his thin erectness making him seem abnormal in the low room. The lean face was unshaven, and from under a thatch of black hair a pair of deep-set eyes stared penetratingly at the figure ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

... vicinity of the upper meadow. She knew the way. But what was likely to happen? Town-bred girl that she was, she had no idea. A recollection of the smooth, upstanding expanse of the upper meadow gave her a clue. If the cows got into that even erectness— She began to run, Prince bounding beside her, his brown tail ...
— The Camerons of Highboro • Beth B. Gilchrist

... a stiff erectness that drew Lawton back in his saddle, "no man shall ever dare to lay hands on bed of mine; ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper



Words linked to "Erectness" :   stance, spatial relation, verticalness, erect, position, verticality, uprightness



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