hotnessn.

OE Homily: De Sancto Iohanne (Corpus Cambr. 198) in Englische Studien (1885) 8 478 Se hate sunne scineþ and þurh þara sunnan hatnesse and hire lioman se heap wyrðeþ onæled þe he, se halga fugol Fenix, geworht hafað.

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) 71 Signez of hote cause in thenasmon bene hotenez, brennyng, and prikkyng. Signez of coldnez is þat cold is feled in þat place, and it is helpid of hotenez.

?c1425 (c1400) in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1984) 74 41 Laborande in a febre efimera, sc., of hotnesse, if vertu and age suffre, mynusche he of cephalica of Þe riȝt arme in somere, in wynter of Þe lifte.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Hotenesse, chalevr.

1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie i. 2 The bloud..which..by..immoderate hotenesse..surchargeth the bodie.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 235 The hotnesse of the Country.

1693 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1880) IV. IV. 186 By detaineing the ship a moneth..the pryce of the corns is fallen a 3d., and by carieing out the cargo and hotness of the season it is embasseled another third.

?1742 H. Glasse Compleat Confectioner 151 Set it in the sun about a fortnight or less, according as the sun is in hotness.

1777 W. Nimmo Gen. Hist. Stirlingshire 210 Before the battle, they had thrown off their upper garments, which the hotness of the weather rendered cumbersome.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. li. 631 Any considerable increase of heat gives us the idea of positive warmth or hotness, and its diminution excites the idea of positive cold.

1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 70 The Day in its hotness.

1899 E. Nesbit Treasure Seekers iii. 33 Though it was quite as hot in the tent as in the house it was a very different sort of hotness.

1933 A. W. Barton Text Bk. Heat p. xii The temperature of a body is simply how hot it is, or its degree of hotness.

1989 Sunday Correspondent 17 Sept. 18/1 A chef knows how to make a curry hot, a fashion designer creates a ‘hot little number’ for the autumn collection but a semiotician studies the cultural meaning of hotness.

2004 Chile Pepper Feb. 88/1 Birds cannot taste the hotness in peppers... Mammals, on the other hand, are discouraged by the extreme hotness of bird peppers.