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单词 abstersiveness
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abstersivenessn.

Brit. /əbˈstəːsᵻvnᵻs/, /abˈstəːsᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /əbˈstərzᵻvnᵻs/, /æbˈstərzᵻvnᵻs/
Forms: see abstersive n. and adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abstersive adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < abstersive adj. + -ness suffix.
Now historical and rare.
The quality or fact of being abstersive.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun] > cleansing quality
abstersiveness1653
1653 Certain Verses 18 The Posts were of abstersive Ebony, (Though no abstersiveness in Posts we find, In powder tane..It cleanses choler, and in pills, breaks wind).
1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 327 The Abstersivenesse of the Saline Elixir promotes the cure for the Nephritis.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 78 The Abstersiveness of this Water, keeping a wound clean, till the Balsome of Nature doth recover it.
1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. Surrey 144 It [sc. Epsom water] was at first applied to sores, which from its Abstersiveness [printed Abstensiveness] it soon healed.
1807 J. Sinclair Code Health & Longevity IV. 80 And in these things the way of their abstersiveness is unlike.
1985 E. Kerridge Textile Manuf. Early Mod. Eng. vii. 109 Salisbury whites were famous for their fineness, lightness and brightness, which Aubrey ascribed to the abstersiveness of the water there.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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