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† ˈmoreness Obs.
[f. more a. + -ness.]
1. The condition of being greater or more than another.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 386 Here we synnen doubli, deniyng þat we knowun not, and reversing Cristis sentence of morenesse þat he spake of. Ibid., Gretenes of clerkes is morenesse of mekenesse and morenesse in service. 14..in Hawkins Hist. Mus. (1776) II. 234 Arithmeticke [tretith] of morenesse and lassnesse of numbir.
2. The condition of being more than one; plurality.
1611Cotgr., Pluralité, pluralitie, or morenesse; more then one of. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 187 A moreness of worlds, and a soonerness of this world, may alwayes be, and often are, grounded upon a like way of reasoning. |