marishness

English

Etymology

From marish +‎ -ness.

Noun

marishness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being marish, or marshy.
    • 1657, Peter Heylyn, Cosmographie in Four Bookes:
      […] from whch last, and the marishness of the ſituation, or from that River and the Marſh, once the Inhabitants hereof, comes the name of Storemarsh.
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