Definition of "chillness" [chill•ness]

• The state of being chilly (noun)

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• "Separated from the Lady Isabelle, whose looks had been for so many days his loadstar, Quentin felt a strange vacancy and chillness of the heart, which he had not yet experienced in any of the vicissitudes to which his life had subjected him."
• "The research found that a hot squash or cordial provided "immediate and sustained relief" from symptoms of a runny nose, cough, sneezing, sore throat, chillness and tiredness."
• "The warning lights and fires upon the river were powerless beneath this pall, and, but for a raw and piercing chillness in the air, and now and then the cry of some bewildered boatman as he rested on his oars and tried to make out where he was, the river itself might have been miles away."