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selectness|sɪˈlɛktnɪs| [f. select a. + -ness.] The quality of being select.
1727Bailey (vol. II.), Selectness, Chosenness, Choiceness. 1755Johnson, Selectness, the state of being select. 1816Jeffrey Swift Wks. (1853) 77/1 Goldsmith..had the harmony of Pope without his quaintness, and his selectness of diction without his coldness and eternal vivacity. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xxix. (1893) 158 The Flat Hat Hunt had relapsed into its wonted quiet, or ‘selectness’, as its members called it, and Beggar-my-Neighbour Hill saw none but the regular attendants. |