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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 119^v One poynt of liȝt or of bischinynge were suffisaunt..to byschine al þe worlde, For noblete of matier & for most actualnesse [L. actualitatem] and doynge of forme.

1855 M. P. Squier Probl. Solved 131 A being who has not self-activity..with no power of action..no forthgoing in a vitalized and self-conscious actualness.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. i. §3, 28 Actualness, existence, extant.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Actualness, the quality of being actual.

1835 A. Kaufman tr. G. F. Bockshammer Freedom of Human Will 164 Evil arising as a kind of accompaniment in the formation and development of finite powers endowed with self-subsistence, is..so far as its actualness is concerned, merely a temporal phenomenon.

1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xiv. 441 The real fact through whose vitality and actualness the stones were put one upon another.

1913 E. Underhill Mystic Way ii. v. 151 It collided, too, with the convert's direct experience of new life—its simplicity and actualness: its acceptance and transmutation of the here-and-now conditions of the world.

1950 H. Margenau Nature of Physical Reality xv. 298 To say that objects around us are real is to claim for them the character of verifacts; it is at once the maximum measure of actualness, of authenticity which can be assigned to them.

1999 M. Hofmann Approximately Nowhere iii. 60 Probably we were happy but in any case we were beyond dreams in the strange actualness of everything, a tyro salary, a baby mortgage, such heartstopping fun.