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featness|ˈfiːtnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. Elegance, shapeliness, spruceness, trimness.
1576Fleming tr. Caius' Dogs in Arb. Garner III. 248 Featness with neatness hath neighbourhood enough. c1615Lives Women Saints 25 The featnesse..of the bodie..is the fouling..of the soule. 1652Wharton tr. Rothman's Chiromancy Wks. (1683) 532 The Lines and other Signatures, are..by their Featness more perspicuous. 1699Boyer Fr. & Eng. Dict. s.v., Featness..propreté.
†b. Nicety. Obs.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 12/2 The language carrieth such difficulty with it..for..the curious featnes of the pronunciation, that, etc.
†2. ‘Oddness, uncouthness’ (Bailey, folio, 1730–6). |