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abstersiveness|æbˈstɜːsɪvnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being cleansing or purgative.
1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 327 The Abstersivenesse of the Saline Elixir promotes the cure for the Nephritis. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 203 The abstersiveness of this water, keeping a wound clean, till the balsam of nature doth recover it. 1759Martin Nat. Hist. I. co. Surrey 144 It [Epsom water] was at first applied to sores, which from its Abstersiveness [pr. Abstensiveness] it soon healed. |