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单词 farness
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farnessn.

Brit. /ˈfɑːnəs/, U.S. /ˈfɑrnəs/
Etymology: < far n. + -ness suffix.
1.
a. The state or fact of being far; remoteness. Also occasionally of sight: Far-reachingness. Now rare.
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun]
farness1398
remotionc1425
distance1440
longinquityc1550
distancy1597
remoteness1607
removednessa1616
elongation1616
far-offness1873
far-awayness1888
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [noun] > ability to see far
long sight1737
farness1883
far-sight1887
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xxi. 69 The syȝte demyth a grete sterre but smalle..for fernesse of place.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 832 Fearing the farreness of the iourney.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ii. 29 Heer is no neernesse of affinitie at all, but as much farnesse as needeth to be.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 29 By reason of the farrnesse from the Court.
1860 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VIII. lx. 312 Farness of sight and fixedness of belief.
1883 S. A. Brooke in Homilet. Monthly Dec. 152 In their farness from the strife and trouble of men.
b. Amount of distance. Obsolete.
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the world > space > distance > [noun]
spacec1350
distancec1392
farness1523
remove1628
eloinmenta1670
1523 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 1 Every bataile an arrowe shotte from the other, and all like fernes from the Englisshe armye.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 78 Having nearnesses or farnesses betwen each other.
2. concrete. Distant parts. (from, in) the farness: ‘the distance’. archaic.
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > the distance
farness1571
offscape1711
eloinment1716
far-away1823
far-off1866
yonder1939
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxv. 6) Thou that art the hope..of the farnesse of the sea.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 263 In the farness lay the moonlight on the Mountains of the Nile.
1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 94 From the farness, To the castle..rode a knight in flashing harness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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