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ˈvisibleness
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being visible; visibility.
1581W. Fulke in Confer. ii. (1584) I ij, There was a time when visiblenes was no note of the Church. 1605A. Wotton Answ. Pop. Articles 14 We easily grant a perpetuall continuance of the church, though we denie a necessity of visiblenesse. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 66 Also visiblenesse, touchablenesse, which are inseparable. 1727Bailey (vol. II). 1842Manning Serm. (1848) I. xiv. 195 We have yet to regain the visibleness and consciousness of unity. Ibid. xxvi. 392 There is an inwardness and a retirement about it [i.e. the Church] even in its visibleness. 1890Spectator 11 Jan. 45/2 The owners feel..as if the visibleness of their wealth constituted a danger. |