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maˈterialness
[f. material a. + -ness.]
The quality of being material.
1587Golding De Mornay iv. 47 The imperfections which are in all things, (as chaungeablenesse, weakenesse, materialnesse, and such like). 1729State Trial Couns. Strange in Proc. agst. T. Bainbridge (T.) This affidavit is not sufficient as to the inability or materialness of the witnesses. 1811Chron. in Ann. Reg. 363 A sort of criterion by which to judge of the materialness of a book. 1903A. B. Davidson Old Test. Proph. xiii. 222 The outstanding characteristic of the Old Testament dispensation was its materialness. |