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costliness|ˈkɒstlɪnɪs, -ɔː-|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being costly; sumptuousness; expensiveness.
a1536Tindale Exp. John (1537) 81 To purchase oughte of hym for ye costlynesse..of the present. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. v. ix. (1675) 331 A closet, to whose costliness nothing can put limits. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty vi. 30 The grandeur of the Eastern dress..depends as much on quantity as on costliness. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. iv. 57 The costliness of a university education.
†b. concr. Costly material; treasure. Obs. rare.
1535Coverdale Jer. xx. 5 All their precious and gorgeous workes, all costlynesse, and all the treasure of the kinges. |