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preˈposterousness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being preposterous; inversion of the natural or rational order (now rare); perversity; unreasonableness; absurdity.
1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. iii. 137 From this preposterousnesse of the Crosse setting the sense before the spirite, come wee to his Vacuitie for his inwarde Devotion. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 176 We shall..choose rather to break those laws of method..and subjoyn them immediately in this place, craving the readers pardon for this preposterousness. 1727Bailey vol. II, Preposterousness, the having the wrong End forward, Absurdness, contrariety to Nature or Custom. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. i. vi. 106 So they go on, rearing one thing upon another, utterly regardless of the preposterousness of their conclusions. |