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farness|ˈfɑːnɪs|
[f. far + -ness.]
1. The state or fact of being far; remoteness. Also occas. of sight: Far-reachingness. Now rare.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xxi. (1495) 69 The syȝte demyth a grete sterre but smalle..for fernesse of place. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 650 Fearing the farness of the journey. 1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. ii. (1628) 29 Here is no neerenesse of affinitie at all, but as much farnesse as needeth to be. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 29 By reason of the farrnesse from the Court. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. lx. 208 Farness of sight and fixedness of belief. 1883S. A. Brooke in Homilet. Monthly Dec. 152 In their farness from the strife and trouble of men.
†b. Amount of distance. Obs.
1523St. Papers Hen. VIII, IV. 1 Every bataile an arrowe shotte from the other, and all like fernes from the Englisshe armye. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 78 Having nearnesses or farnesses betwen each other.
2. concr. Distant parts. (from, in) the farness: ‘the distance’. arch.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxv. 6 Thou that art the hope..of the farnesse of the sea. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 263 In the farness lay the moonlight on the Mountains of the Nile. 1855Fraser's Mag. LI. 94 From the farness, To the castle..rode a knight in flashing harness. |