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doubleness|ˈdʌb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. double a. + -ness.]
1. The quality or state of being double or twofold. (In quot. 1533, A double layer or fold.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxvi. (1495) 919 The more he passyth fro doublynesse and nygheth to symplynesse. a1533Ld. Berners Huon ix. 23 The stroke passyd through the doublenes of his cloke. 1665–76Ray Flora 190 The Double Popy differeth only from the single field Popy in the doubleness of the flowers. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. ii. §10 If we had..two distinct olfactory nerves, we should..have a feeling of doubleness or repetition of smells.
†b. Double or doubtful meaning, ambiguity.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxiii. 248 He wagged his hede, as he that conceyued some doublenesse in this reporte. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 8 That the doublenesse of no one woorde deceive the hearer. [1694R. Burthogge Reason 37 Words..often have a doubleness of meaning, and then are called Ambiguous.]
c. doubleness of mind= double-mindedness.
a1628Preston New Covt. (1634) 10 Doublenesse of mind..when a man is distracted between God and some other object. 1863Kinglake Crimea I. 348 That doubleness of mind which made him always prone to do acts clashing one with another.
2. The character of being ‘double’ in action or conduct; duplicity, deceitfulness, treachery.
c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 159 He coude hir dowbilnesse espie. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. cxxxvi, Fy on thaire doubilnesse! 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV (an. 7) 199 b, The erle began to complain..of the ingratitude and doublenes of kyng Edward. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 602 Dissimulation and doublenesse of heart. 1792F. Burney Diary May, Unsuspicious..where he has met no doubleness. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola iii. xxvii, What he called perplexity seemed to her sophistry and doubleness. |