outwardnessn.

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Extérieureté, outwardnesse.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Exteriereté, exterioritie, outwardnesse; the super-ficies, outside, or vpper part.

1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xiv. 155 I prythee, let not thy hands doe all what they can. Be quiet (good Sir) since I am yours, suffice it you content your selfe in the inioying of this outwardnes, which is the proper fruit of Louers.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 829 Magnitude or Extension as such, is meer Outside or Outwardness, it hath nothing Within.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 21 The objects give outwardness and reality to the shapings of the Dream.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. viii. vi. 59 Whatsoever I could bring into outwardness that I wrote down.

1885 Mind 10 393 Surely no one will seriously contend that it is experience which originates the outwardness of our sensations of sound, smell or taste.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iii An abstract conception rather, with the feelings of reality and spatial outwardness directly attached to it—in other words, a fully objectified and exteriorized idea.

1992 P. Porter Irradiated Poem 29 The Inward Shines through outwardness and we no longer need A sickness in our words to make us write.

?c1835 J. Sterling in W. L. Courtney Life J. S. Mill (1889) 73 He has been gradually delivered from this outwardness..individual reform must be the groundwork of social progress.

1840 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 48 270 The outwardness, or materiality of Vecelli.

1891 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Jan. 68 Owing..to his native volatility and outwardness, he did not come to the crisis of his spiritual history until 5 years after leaving school.

1910 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 21 46 Once more, an excessive use of the subjective division leads easily to an excessive inwardness, or rather a defective outwardness, of morality.

1981 Economist 24 Jan. 4 By virtue of a training oriented away from their traditional values they have tended to concentrate upon ‘outwardness’ exclusively and have thereby become bankrupt in terms of ‘inwardness’.

2002 Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 25 The average film nowadays is preoccupied with outwardness, and it really takes something special and risky to honour the dramas of inwardness.