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English
Etymology
From swarth + -ness.
Noun
swarthness (uncountable)
- Archaic form of swarthiness.
c. 1766, anonymous author, Elegy on the late right honourable William Pitt, esquire:Or where parch'd Afric vehemently glows,
In all the swarthness of autumnal fires
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