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warmness Now rare.|ˈwɔːmnɪs|
[f. warm a. + -ness.]
The condition of being warm, warmth.
1. Moderate heat.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xi. 157 He wolde hine baðian on þam wlacum wætere..ac he ᵹewat sona swa he ðæt wæter hrepode, and wearð seo wearmnys him awend to deaðe. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋2375 It may nat be seith he [Seneca] that where greet fyr hath longe tyme endured, that ther ne dwelleth som vapour of warmnesse. c1440Alphabet of Tales 473 He fand a serpent slayn with hurd⁓men, & bon vnto a stokk; and he lowsid hur becauce sho was som-what on lyfe, & layd hur þer sho mot fele warmenes of þe son. 1526Tindale Jas. ii. 16 If..one of you saye vnto them: Departe in peace, God sende you warmnes and fode. 1607Markham Cavel. iii. (1617) 11 Make your horse run the traine with good courage and liuelinesse, and so in his warmnesse trot him home. 1696J. F. Merch. Wareho. 25 Which [sc. cotton goods] if any person made trial of, he would scarcely make use of any other by reason of their duration and warmness. 1785T. Reid Let. Wks. (1846) 65/1 A comfortable warmness in the air.
fig.1589Pappe w. Hatchet D iij b, The heate of some mens braines, and the warmnes of other mens bloud. 1681D. Abraham in Jrnl. Friends' Hist. Soc. (1912) July 141 Love..the course and motion whereof is in no wise to be stopped; Neither the warmness of Its stream refrigerated.
†2. The state of being well to do. Obs.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 288 Þis warmnesse in welth with wy vppon erthe Myȝte not longe dure as doctourz us tellith. 1411–12Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3059 Al þi bysynesse Is for þi lucre, and þi cofres warmnesse.
†3. Lukewarmness. Obs. rare.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. xx. 127 The lothsom[n]es whiche God conceaueth of this newtralitie or warmnes [L. ex tepiditate].
4. Warmth of affection or devotion.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 150 The soule melteth whan it waxeth warme in deuocyon, whiche warmenesse,..is moch swete and pleasaunt. 1631Eng. Primer Our Lady 477 Make the sturdy for to bend, To the cold kind warmenes send. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. iii, I lo'ed your company; And ever had a warmness in my breast, That made ye dearer to me than the rest.
†5. Heat of anger. Obs.
1563Bp. Sandys in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. 362 He saith, he is sory for those letters he wrote to me in his Warmeness. |