dailinessn.
/ˈdeɪlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈdeɪlinᵻs/ The fact or condition of happening or being done on a daily basis. Also: the quality of being ordinary, routine, or mundane; everyday character; reliable regularity.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > habitualness or dailiness
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > each or every day > quality of being daily or daily occurrence
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1565 J. Rastell Replie Def. Truth iii. f. 29 Except you constraine men by act of parleament, you shall neuer bring them, by the strength and dailynes of your preaching, vnto the frequentyng of the communion.
1607 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in Wks. (1620) I. 135 There are very few duties of religion, but the scripture speaks of the dailines of them.
1671 Christian Consol. ii. 42 The dailiness of sin must be bewailed with the dailiness of sorrow.
1849 G. B. Cheever Windings of River of Water of Life xxv. 287 There is also great encouragement in the daily cross, encouragement in its dailiness.
1898 A. Bennett Man From North xix The drab dailiness of her existence in Carteret Street.
1899 Academy 14 Oct. 432/1 That which Mrs. Meynell has well called the ‘dailiness’ of life.
1906 Daily Chron. 22 May 6/6 All necessary implication of dailiness has long disappeared from the word ‘journal’.
1935 W. J. Blyton Country Airs viii. 74 Our homely, uncouth husbandry, with its divine humilities and dailiness.
1994 B. Bartocci Unexpected Answers ix. 67 The real gift, for Bobbi, came in the dailiness of his visits.
2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Apr. 18/3 Although he made successful pictures of people in the street or theaters, his chosen realm was home life in all its dailiness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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