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▪ I. † ˈsetness1 Obs.
Also 3 sett-, sæt-, sætt-, sete-, 4 zet-.
[OE. setnes (also ᵹesetnes), f. (ᵹe)set, pa. pple. of settan set v.1 + -ness.]
1. Constitution; establishment; imposition (of a law).
law of setness: positive law as opposed to law of nature (‘kind’). Cf. set ppl. a. 1 b.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 35 Ic loccete deiᵹlo from setnesse middanᵹeardes [a constitutione mundi]. a1300Cursor M. 29517 Þat cursing tald vn-laghful es Þat ordir wantes and right settnes o lagh. 13..Ibid. 1571 (Gött.) Þai left þe lede of oþer laue, Þat es of setnes and of kind.
2. What is decreed or determined; a statute, ordinance.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xv. 2 Ðeᵹnas ðinne hia ofergæs vel oferhoᵹas selenise vel setnesa [traditionem] ðara ældra. c1200Ormin 16837 Godess laȝhe & Godess rihht & hiss hallȝhe settnesse. c1205Lay. 4258 Heo makeden ane sætnesse, and mid aȝe heo semde. a1300Cursor M. 11292 Þai bar þe child..vn-to þe temple, For to do fore him þat dai, Þe settenes of þe ald lai. Ibid. 24958 Þis ilk abbot... A settnes set in his abbai. 1340Ayenb. 223 Huanne þe lost ne paseþ naȝt þe markes ne þe zetnesses of spoushod.
3. ? Fixed abode.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 23 Chireche is cleped..kiriaca .i. dominicalis,..and is þerto nemned for þe heuenliche kinges lichame is to setnesse þarinne.
4. Appointed time.
a1400–50Wars Alex. 5553 Sone so þe setnes was gane þat him-selfe made [Tempus..quod militibus suis predixit Alexander completum erat].
▪ II. setness2|ˈsɛtnɪs|
[f. set ppl. a. + -ness.]
The quality, state, or character of being set, in various senses; also an instance of this.
1642D. Rogers Naaman 187 Looking sometime more..at the setnesse of our sentences..then at Gods awfull presence. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 67 Don't you see by the Setness of some of these Letters..that it is the Hand of a Person bred in the Law-way. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets viii. (1869) 195 There is in the chief character..a setness of purpose which John Kemble alone was capable of giving. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxvi, Her little peculiarities and setnesses, so unlike the careless freedom of southern manners. 1899R. H. Charles Eschatol. xi. 380 There is a setness and rigidity in the teaching of the Apostle. |