Definition of "starchness" []

• The quality of being starched; stiff formality. (noun)

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• "Habington, though in a different key, has something of the starchness rather than strength which characterises _Castara_."
• "A certain degree of starchness is indispensable for a railway director, if he means to go forward in his high calling and prosper; he must abandon all juvenile eccentricities, and aim at the appearance of a decided enemy to free trade in the article of Wild Oats."
• "He has none of that contemptuous pride, none of that solemn starchness, which we disliked so much in all the other nobles."