adulteratenessn.
/əˈdʌltərətnəs/, U.S. /əˈdəltərətnəs/ The quality or condition of being adulterate (adulterate adj. 1); debased or adulterated state.In the 18th cent. apparently found only in dictionaries.
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society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [noun] > fall or reduction in value
delayinga1500
embezzlement1548
embasing1551
fall1551
debasement1602
disvaluation1617
adulterateness1655
embasement1677
falling1699
depreciating1767
depreciation1767
debasing1891
devaluation1914
devalorization1928
slippage1972
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged > quality of
counterfeitness1557
adulteration1609
supposititiousness1638
apocryphalness1641
adulterateness1655
forgery1665
falsity1678
spuriousness1818
spuriosity1863
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Waltham-Abby 16 in Church-hist. Brit. Adultery in Men, and Adulterateness in Money, both hardly reclaimed.
1691 R. Boyle Experimenta & Observationes Physicæ iv. 91 It may be on some occasions of use to a Physician, to have ways of Discovering the Adulterateness of Bezoar Stone.
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) at word Adulterateness, baseness or counterfeitness.
1837 G. Penn Annot. Bk. New Covenant 43 If the adulterateness of those passages [in the text] is fully exposed.
1871 H. Vernon Thoughts Leisure Hours p. xvi The..suppuration of adulterateness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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