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mysteriousness|mɪˈstɪərɪəsnɪs|
[-ness.]
1. The quality or condition of being mysterious or a mystery; the quality of being shrouded in mystery or obscurity: applied chiefly to the mysteries of religion.
1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 381 The mysteriousnesse and difficulty of the Book. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 212 Profound veneration, which Obscurity and Mysteriousness conciliates to all Truths. 1754Sherlock Disc. I. i. ii. 65 The Mysteriousness of the whole Proceeding arises only from hence, That our finite Minds cannot comprehend the Reasons and Limits of the divine Justice. 1834J. H. Newman Par. Serm. I. xvi. 242 Such being the necessary mysteriousness of Scripture doctrine. 1883F. M. Peard Contrad. I. 2 Blue and shadowy depths suggested a soft mysteriousness.
†b. Applied to the Eucharist. Obs.
1650Jer. Taylor Holy Living iv. §10. 347 The celebration of the holy Sacrament is the great mysteriousnesse of the Christian religion. 1660― Worthy Commun. i. §5. 95 Those great appelatives with which..the most eminent Saints of God use to..invest the great mysteriousness.
2. The behaviour or attitude of one who makes a mystery of a matter.
1784Johnson in Johnsoniana (1836) 407 Nothing ends more fatally than mysteriousness in trifles. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 332 Elizabeth all her life had persevered in an obstinate mysteriousness respecting the succession. 1886Manch. Exam. 13 Jan. 5/1 There is an air of constitutional mysteriousness about them. |