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superfluousness|s(j)uːˈpɜːfluːəsnɪs|
[f. superfluous + -ness.]
Superfluity.
a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 211/1 All onely I spake against the superfluousnes, and the abuse of them [sc. possessions]. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 301 This semeth a weake superfluousnes of wordes. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 39 Crowtoe..being drunken..with Wine purgeth the Gall of his superfluousnesse. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme vi. xxii. 795 Such wines doe not load the bodie with superfluousnes of serous excrements. 1897Current Hist. (Buffalo, U.S.) VII. 380 The superfluousness of royal state. 1899‘A. Hope’ King's Mirror xviii. 192 A state of conscious and wretched superfluousness. |