† serenessn.1
Obsolete.
Diversity, variety.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun]
manifoldnesseOE
serenessa1300
diversityc1340
sundernessc1390
diversenessa1400
seretya1400
variancea1400
sundryhead?a1425
sundrinessa1450
variety1548
multivariety1601
diversifying1611
inconstancy1646
heterogeneity1651
variousness1651
heterogeneousness1662
variegation1668
multifariousness1684
miscellaneousness1727
miscellaneity1778
versatility1802
omnifariousness1806
motleyness1819
many-headedness1847
heterology1854
unhomogeneity1862
diversitude1870
variedness1897
polycentricity1915
inhomogeneity1916
a1300 E.E. Psalter xliv. 11 Vmgiuen with sernes gode [L. circumdata varietate].
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xliv. 15 Vmcled in sernesis [L. circumamicta varietatibus].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 368 (MED) Þe werld i call wit min entens þe mater of þe four elements, þat yeit was tan o forme mischapen, Quar of was serenes siþen scapen.
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serenessn.2
The quality of being sere, or dry and withered.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > dryness or witheredness
serenessc1440
witheredness1535
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 453/2 Seernesse [v.r. sernesse], or up~dryynge of treys or herbis, ariditas, marcor.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 269/2 Serenesse drinesse, sechevr.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 587/1 Wherin he seemed to forget..the searnesse of his bodie, and the greennesse of his Grand-Child yong Richard.
1658 Hexham's Groot Woorden-boeck (new ed.) Dorheydt, drienesse, Searenesse, or Witherednesse.
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