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settledness|ˈsɛt(ə)ldnɪs|
[-ness.]
The state or quality of being settled (in various senses).
Frequent in 17th c.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. i. 1 The ‘seate’ by which word he betokeneth..the settlednesse that is concieued of the continuall custome of liuing. 1607Beaumont Woman Hater v. iii, Coun. You are your self my Lord, I like your setel'dnes. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. 151 Their eyes [turn] to a swolne settlednesse & dulnesse of look. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xxiv. 221 §1 The Scythian wandring Nomades,..wanting both civility and settlednesse. 1648Bp. Hall Breath. Devout Soul xxxiv. 53 Lord, work my heart to so firme a setledness upon thee, that it may never be shaken. 1663Bp. Patrick Parab. Pilgr. xxiii. (1665) 248 Setledness and stediness of mind. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. (1677) 196 The Antiquity and Setledness of this Monarchy. a1866Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. xii. (1870) 195 The discriminateness or settledness, with which moral notions present themselves to the mind. 1875J. H. Rigg Living Wesley ii. ii. 43 The pleasant and old-fashioned settledness of the town of Epworth. 1877Bryce Transcaucasia & Ararat i. 25 The general want of settledness [in Russia] is seen in the ease with which the population move from place to place. |