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stoniness|ˈstəʊnɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being stony.
1. lit. The fact of having the character of stone, or being full of stones (or of hard substance like stone).
1600Surflet Country Farm ii. liv. 369 Figges... Their stonines or being without stones. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 38 Arabia Petrea (named so either from the Stoniness thereof or from Petra..the Capital City). 1789W. H. Marshall Glouc. II. 40 Notwithstanding the stoniness of the soil.
b. concr. Stony matter or deposit. rare.
1653W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (ed. 3) 33 Oft-times thou commest immediately unto a little Gravill, or Stoniness. 1760R. Brown Compl. Farmer ii. 5 Where anything of small gravel or stonyness is to be found.
2. fig. Hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xviii. 26. 62 God hardeneth himself..and becometh steely ageinst their stonnynesse. 1626J. Cotton in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 339 Before the Heart be changed from Stoniness to Brokenness. 1854T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered etc. (1872) 383 The stoniness of his own heart may remain. |