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† ˈorientness Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being ‘orient’; lustre, brilliancy.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 105 Pearlis wyll abyde no crafte: but anone theyr orientnes flytteth. 1548Recorde Urin. Physick xi. (1651) 105 The orientness and the beauty of the Colour. 1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. lxviii. 303 The orientness of that Fame which their Fore-Fathers left them. a1661Fuller Worthies i. (1662) 215 Pearls..far short of the Indian in Orientness. |