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ˈmereness [f. mere a.2] †1. Purity. Obs.—0
1648–60Hexham Dutch Dict., Louterheyat, Purety, Meerenesse, or Cleanenesse. 2. The state or quality of being merely something or of being small or insignificant.
1960Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 193/3 Your reviewer..and others have made something of the fact that Bevin used to refer to Lord Attlee as the Little Man. Lloyd George's colleagues used exactly the same phrase about him: both Prime Ministers lacked inches. Is it wise to see a value judgment in this statement of physical mereness? 1966W. V. Quine in Jrnl. Philos. LXIII. 658 The word ‘concept’, which Russell applied to these nonexistents, connotes mereness. |