recentnessn.

1647 H. Hammond Of Power of Keyes iv. 116 In a Christian Church where either through the recentnesse of their plantation communes conventus non sunt, [etc.].

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. v. 167 This Inference of the Recentness of Mankind from the Recentness of these Apotheoses.

1736 Universal Hist. I. i. vii. 820 Those Rechabites..express themselves in such terms, as argue nothing less than the recentness of their institution.

1794 W. Godwin Things as they Are I. xii. 276 The recentness of the quarrel, and the odious nature of the insult given by Mr. Tyrrel were notorious.

1828 C. Lamb Guy Faux in Elia 2nd Ser. 140 Men's minds still were shuddering from the recentness of the escape.

1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. xviii. 210 A value founded rather on their recentness than on their specific importance.

1908 Yale Law Jrnl. 17 392 Its use is limited, by reason of the recentness of its invention, principally to the larger cities.

1950 E. C. Prophet in G.-H. Smith Conservation Nat. Resources xx. 446 Because of the lack of national forests in the east or the recentness of their establishment there, big summer colonies have not as yet developed.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 14/2 All of them, in Western European terms, have a recentness about them, literally so in the case of Norway and Finland which have yet to celebrate their centenaries as independent nation-states.