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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 9 Austyn seith þat a noun abstract tokeneþ onlich þe godhede, as nounes essencia bonytas, deitas.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Bb 3/1 Englecerie (engleceria) is an old abstract word, signifying nothing else but to be an English man.

1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick ii. 192 Let it be considered whither it be a Noun Abstract or Concrete.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. viii. 230 As to our Ideas of Substances, we have very few or no abstract Names at all.

1762 J. Buchanan Brit. Gram. Pref. p. xi They are called abstract Nouns; because they are abstracted or separated from material substances.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. ii. §4. 34 An abstract name is a name which stands for an attribute of a thing.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue vii. 382 There is in some languages an abstract substantive which is formed upon cardinals, and it has a peculiar utility in expressing the more conventional quantities or round numbers.

1947 ‘G. Orwell’ Eng. People 39 Many necessary abstract words..are rejected by the working class because they sound public-schoolish.

1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax ii. 64 Boy is a Count Noun (as distinct from the Mass Noun butter and the Abstract Noun sincerity).

1999 D. Graham Aristotle's Two Syst. ii. 40 For him..λευκος ‘white’ is derived from λευκοτης ‘whiteness’..i.e. the adjective from the abstract noun.