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ˈsuperfineness rare.
Also 6 -finesse.
[f. prec. adj. + -ness; in early use after finesse.]
The quality of being superfine; excessive refinement.
1575G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 93 That is another fitt of your mill, violent, celestiall, incomprehensible, peremptorye superfinesse. 1575Gascoigne Glasse Govt. i. v. Wks. 1910 II. 23, I could rather content my self to be buryed..then to live in such a miserable and precise world as this is, Oh what Superfinesse are we now grown unto? 1862Fraser's Mag. July 74 A work of..much subtle sweetness and delicacy, tending, however, to pass into tenuity and superfineness. |