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speˈcificness rare.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Specific character or quality.
1682H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux O. 233 For a Spirit is nothing else but such a specifick simple Substance or Essence, the Specifickness or whose nature onely is its real intimate Form. 1727in Bailey (vol. II). 1852Lynch Lett. to Scattered 249 There should be much specificness in prayer, yet may too large a portion of our prayer be specific. Ibid. 251 Peculiar natural character will give specificness to a man's sins. 1905W. Stevens Let. 31 Dec. (1967) 85 Reflections..on Japanese life, on specificness,..on my future. 1966J. Ellis in C. E. Bazell In Memory of J. R. Firth 83 By register-choice is meant the particular register out of the performer's range to which the utterance may be assigned..the specificness of the assignment depending on the delicacy of the analysis. |