Definition of "silentness" []

• Silence (noun)

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• "Frost at Midnight (9-10); the "moonlight steeped in silentness" in the Mariner's return to an alien home harbor (The Rime of the Ancyent"
• "Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison (39), or the gothic turns: that "strange/And extreme silentness" that vexes meditation and nearly freezes the meter in"
• "It was the striking of the church clock, distinct in the still atmosphere as if it had come from the tower hard by, which, wrapt in its solitary silentness, gave out no such sounds of life."