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orderliness|ˈɔːdəlɪnɪs|
[f. orderly a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being orderly.
1. Conformity to order or method; regularity.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. viii. 6 Then is that perfection of orderlinesse decayed. 1667J. Corbet Disc. Relig. Eng. 17 The Reformation in England, for its Legality and Orderliness, is unquestionable. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. ii. ii. i. 132 He is made to pay dear..by losing his natural good Disposition, and the Orderliness of his Kind or Species. 1894Law Times XCVII. 387/2 A court in which speed was considered rather than orderliness.
b. Observance of, or regard for, order; methodicalness.
1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. xiii. (1849) 127 To see how the habits of orderliness..were daily slackening. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 14 Goethe..seems to have inherited..from his father..the nervous orderliness..by which he was always distinguished.
2. Orderly quality of conduct or behaviour.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 655 Who then would not wonder at such behauiour and orderlinesse? 1676G. Towerson Decalogue 318. 1740–87 Miss Talbot, etc. Lett. (1808) 201, I never saw a more perfect orderliness; we had no crowd going or coming, and our places were excellent. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 116 He bears testimony to the orderliness of the crowd. |