livingnessn.

1656 T. Moore Explicite Declar. Testimony of Christ i. iv. 20 We are led by this place to magnifie the Gospel and Testimony of Christ, for the Truth, Livingness, Excellency and Plainness thereof.

1688 R. Sandilands Salutation Endeared Love 29 Which indisposeth both Body and Mind to serve the Lord even in that livingness and freshness which he requires.

a1699 J. Crook Short Hist. Life (1706) 16 I could not perform so formally as I did use to do before..but with much more Livingness and Zeal, Faith and Confidence than before.

1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. xviii. 206 The attitude..[was] even awful in the livingness of its command.

1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 113 There has arisen in our country..a sense of the livingness and value of our history.

1871 F. J. A. Hort Hulsean Lect. 195 Early sense of life..branches off into self-regarding passions, but thereby loses its own livingness.

1884 M. Oliphant Open Door 43 Signs of the livingness of nature.

1925 D. H. Lawrence Refl. Death Porcupine 147 We only exhaust ourselves, and lose our lives—that is, our livingness, our power to live—by any further straining of the will and the intellect.

1932 A. Nin Let. 6 Oct. in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 115 What is necessary to life, to livingness, is to move on, in other words to move from one kind of problem to another.

1991 A. Clampitt Predecessors, Et Cetera 3 The most precious thing I brought away with me from four years at Grinnell was the beginning of a sense of — how shall I put it? — the livingness of the past.