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rareness|ˈrɛənɪs|
[f. rare a.1 + -ness.]
The fact or quality of being rare.
†1. Thinness; fewness, scantiness. Obs. rare.
1588Whitehorne tr. Machiavel's Arte of Warre iii. 43 The Hastati..retyred by a litle, and litle, by the rarenes of thorders betweene the Principi. 1610J. Forbes Cert. Rec. x. (1846) 390 The said Assemblie..having weighed the rareness of their own number [etc.].
2. = rarity 2.
1614W. B. Philosopher's Banquet (ed. 2) 45 The lightnesse and rarenesse of the substance. 1714Halley in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 160 The extream Cold and Rareness of the Air in those upper Regions. 1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan xii. 287 The not infrequent rains..give an occasional humidity and rareness to the atmosphere.
3. = rarity 3.
1551R. Robinson tr. More's Utopia ii. vi. (1895) 174 Yf that the folly of men hadde not sette it in hygher estymacyon for the rarenes sake. 1620Venner Via Recta iv. 74 It may be..doubted, whether it be so greatly esteemed for the rarenesse of it, or for the goodnesse of meate. 1721R. Keith tr. à Kempis' Solil. Soul xviii. 262, I rather accuse the Rareness than the Frequency of thy Approaches. 1884Contemp. Rev. July 63 A noteworthy fact is the comparative rareness of ruined villages of the age of bronze.
4. = rarity 4.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 167 This kind of Foule, both for their rareness, and also the greatnesse of their body, is at this daie kept in great flockes. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. xviii. (1585) 308 Their prerogatiues..were manifolde, and for the preciousnesse and rarenesse of them most wonderful. 1683Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 185 The greatest master both for invention and rareness of work, that the world ever had. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xlv, That childhood to which common things have rareness. |