Definition for SWIFT'NESS

SWIFT'NESS, n.

Speed; rapid motion; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity. Swiftness is a word of general import, applicable to every kind of motion, and to every thing that moves; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, &c.

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