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1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxii. 116 They were ill sundred, whom the samenes of time so vniteth together.

1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 28 They meane a samenesse for some proportion that is betweene them.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. Origen in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 559 We worship, the Father of Truth, and the Son the Truth it self, being Two Things as to Hypostasis; but one in Agreement, Consent, and Sameness of Will.

1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 119 If there be the sameness in sinning, the same shall be in suffering.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iv. 28 Our Idea of sameness, is not so setled and clear, as to deserve to be thought innate in us.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 11 Personal Identity or the Sameness of living Agents.

1753 Scots Mag. 15 17/2 The sameness of the electrical fire with that of lightning.

1759 Capell Prolusions Pref. (1760) 7 Sameness of rythmus, sameness of orthography, and a very near affinity of words and phrases.

1827 R. Whately Elements Logic (ed. 2) App. 305 Sameness, in the primary sense, does not even necessarily imply Similarity.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues III. 243 Likeness is sameness of state.

1743 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 27 Jan. We are in such a state of sameness that I shall begin to wonder at the change of seasons and talk of the Spring as a strange accident.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. viii. 66 There will arise..a sameness and a flatness.

1820 J. W. Croker in S. Smiles Publisher & Friends (1891) II. xxiii. 86 I shall endeavour to enliven a little the sameness of my author.

1842 G. T. Vigne Trav. Kashmir II. 404 The scenery is sameness itself.

1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. vii. 238 The steady occupations, the beloved samenesses, and the sacred customs of home.

1790 in W. Wrighte Grotesque Archit. (frontispiece) Each will require a sameness to the Spot, For this a Cell, a Cascade or a Grot.