northernnessn.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. 149 Eight hundred miles from the Polar limit of all northernness.

1869 G. Hartwig & A. H. G. Polar World 366 Stretching my neck to look uncomfortably at the indication of our extreme northernness, it was hard to realize that he was not directly overhead.

1949 Evolution 3 334/2 A new set of discriminants was calculated which indicated the seasonal changes in the northernness or southernness of the morphology.

1994 Arctic Circle Fall–Winter 25/2 It is our northerness [sic], in particular, that distinguishes us from our neighbour to the south.

1931 Northern Daily Mail (Hartlepool) 1 June 4/5 In extending a warm welcome to the visitors from West Hartlepool, the Canon remarked that it was over 20 years since he left the parish, and thought their visit was a sign of warm friendship and Northernness.

1939 C. S. Lewis Rehabilitations ii. 37 I knew one who could come no nearer to an explanation of Morris's charm than to repeat ‘It's the Northernness—the Northernness.’

1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings 2 Though they had many ties..to remind them of a shared northernness, they had but little sense of a separate Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian nationality.

1995 Independent 16 Jan. 15/2 Mr Blair..has not cleansed himself of his northernness.