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meetness|ˈmiːtnɪs|
[f. meet a. + -ness.]
The condition of being meet; fitness, suitableness.
c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xi. 347 Certis this fadir were not to be blamed, if he wolde ordeyne that these schoon be notabli widdir than the meetenes of hem wolde aske, as for the firste dai in which thei schulden be worne. 1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 46 Ye meetnesse of our speeche to receiue the best forme of Poetry. c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxviii, And, sicke of wel-fare found a kind of meetnesse To be diseas'd ere that there was true needing. 1758S. Hayward Serm. xiv. 409 Holiness is a meetness for heaven. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. x. (1870) 202 They have no title to heaven and no meetness for it. |