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clearness, n.|ˈklɪənɪs|
Also cler-, clere-, etc., -nesse, -nes.
[ME. clernesse, f. cler clear + -nesse, -ness.]
The quality of being clear; in various senses of the adj.
†1. Brightness, luminousness; splendour, brilliancy; fairness, beauty; fineness of weather. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 12573 Þe clernes self o godds light Schan on him. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B 1353 In þe clernes of his concubines & curious wedez. c1440Promp. Parv. 81 Clerenesse of wedyr, serenitas. c1440Gesta Rom. v. 12 (Harl. MS.) Þere shynith the sonne in here clerenesse. 1631Eng. Primer our Lady 477 Send us from the heavenly coast Cleerenes of Thy beames so bright.
2. Freedom from opacity, obscurity, or discolourment; distinctness or purity of light or colour; transparency, pellucidness.
1692Dryden St. Evremont's Ess. 372 You see upon her face a lively Clearness, an air of Health. 1860Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 91 The extreme clearness of the water permits the coral..to be distinctly seen. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. x, The clearness of the Eastern atmosphere.
3. Distinctness of vision, sound, expression, comprehension, etc.
1535Coverdale Prov. xv. 30 Like as y⊇ clearnesse of y⊇ eyes reioyseth y⊇ herte. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. i. §1 That clearness of well-advised judgment. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. (1675) 30 Does much improve one's voice, both as to strength and clearness. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. iv. (1695) 324 That which is requisite to make our Knowledge certain, is the Clearness of our Ideas. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 176 ⁋11 They see with great clearness whatever is too remote to be discovered by the rest of Mankind. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 123 Touching the pith of the matter with telling clearness. 1885F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sc. v. 149 The New Testament affirms with a clearness previously unknown the immortality of the soul. 1885Spectator 24 July 5/1 His sufferings did not abate the clearness of his intellect.
†4. Purity; innocence; openness. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 142 b, Some more, some lesse, as the clerenes of theyr conscyences requireth. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 157 Which [blame] being taken out of the way, all clearenesse should seeme to come agayne. 1625Bacon Ess. Simulation & D. (Arb.) 507 The former Opinion..of their good Faith, and Clearnesse of dealing. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 311 Termed Purevale..because of the clearness of the corn growing therein. 1701Whitehead Truth Prev. To Rdr. 7 Knowing my own Innocency and Clearness..from any Design of such Palliation.
5. Freedom from anything obstructive.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. i. 133, I require a clearenesse. 1721Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 171 The clearness of their Stems, without Knots. 1869Daily News 30 Mar., This clearness of the road considerably facilitated their march. |