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onceness|ˈwʌnsnɪs|
[f. once adv. + -ness.]
The fact or quality of happening only once, or all at once.
1866R. & S. Redgrave Century of Painters of Eng. School I. iv. 108 [George] Barret's pictures are painted with the firm pencil and vigorous once-ness which characterize the works of the best painters of his time. 1917E. Pound Let. 18 Apr. (1971) 109 H. Monroe seems to think that if her Chicago widows and spinsters will only shell out she can turn her gang of free-versers into geniuses all of a onceness. 1948Scottish Jrnl. Theol. I. 141 In the Old Testament, he maintains, there is only one ‘onceness’ which is of theological significance, and that is the onceness of Christ. 1951Ibid. IV. 3 That is to say, history is the field of relative uniqueness, but never of absolute once-ness. |