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weightiness|ˈweɪtɪnɪs|
[f. weighty a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being weighty: a. fig., the fact of being of much weight, importance, or consequence; grave or serious character.
1530Palsgr. 287/2 Weightynesse, aggrauation. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 152 b, The weightines of the cause also requireth, that many of vs should come to the counsell. 1596Lodge Marg. Amer. 42 If thou faint through feeblenesse of bodie, I will default through waightinesse of discontent. 1618Barnevelt's Apol. C 3, I had..complained..of the weightinesse of the Office imposed vpon me. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 371 The weightiness or penetrating force of those arguments. a1713T. Ellwood Autobiog. (1714) 15 The Weightiness that was upon their Spirits and Countenances. 1744M. Bishop Life 14 Observing the Weightiness of the Concern, this was my Method of proceeding. 1905‘J. Oxenham’ White Fire xvi. 161 ‘The matter is worth consideration,’ he said, with an assumption of weightiness.
b. of material things.
1539Elyot Cast. Helthe iii. vii, There is felt in the entrayles..a weyghtynesse with tension or thrustyng outwarde. 1591Spenser Ruins of Time 571 The Caue..with her owne weightinesse Vpon them fell. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxxi[i]. §18 The peculiar Weightiness, and yellow Colour of Gold. 1832L. Hunt Sir R. Esher (1850) 33 It was relieved from an appearance of too much weight by the very weightiness of the hanging sleeves. 1839Bailey Festus 25 A deathless spirit's state, Freed from gross form and bodily weightiness. |