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staleness|ˈsteɪlnɪs|
[f. stale a.1 + -ness.]
The condition of being stale, in any sense of the adj.
1552Huloet, Stalenes, vetustas. 1577–87Holinshed Hist. Eng. I. 53/2 So that more than necessitie compelled him he could not eat, by reason that the stalenesse tooke awaie the pleasant tast thereof, and lesse prouoked his appetite. 1602T. Phelippes in St. Papers, Dom. 1601–3 (1870) 227, I shall send you what [report] comes to hand, if staleness make it not like Rye fish, unfit for market. 1608Shakes. Per. v. i. 58. 1620 Venner Via Recta ii. 39 If it [beer] be kept vntouched, till that it hath gotten a sufficient stalenesse. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 725 Failures in hatching arise from want of impregnation in the egg—from age, commonly called staleness. 1868Field 4 July 14/2 Probably his continued rowing at Oxford nearly the whole year through may have tended to produce staleness. 1891Law Times XCII. 127/2 The defence based on the staleness of the claim could not..prevail.
†b. pl. quasi-concr. Stale remarks or arguments.
1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. vi. 227 He is not ashamed to renew such motheaten stalenesses. |