spiritualnessn.

?1526 J. Fisher Serm. conc. Heretickes sig. F.iiij Diuerse degrees of spiritualnes, whiche the sede of the worde of god workethe in our hartes.

1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) xlviii. f. 149^v Otherwyse there is no spiritualnes at all: for they be altogether fleshe.

a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 438 The spiritualnesse of our bodies doth not take away their naturall and essentiall properties.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 108 The spiritualnesse and precisenesse of Christ is a burthen to them.

1756 H. Innes Medit. & Reasonings vii. 83 It is a high strain of spiritualness in bearing afflictions, when a Christian can say, I love to bear: tho' I love not that which I suffer.

1818 Christian Observer Mar. 143/2 With what spiritualness of heart you would meditate, if your eternal state and condition were to be determined and fixed by the next of those duties that in this kind you were to perform.

1937 P. Grainger Let. 9 Dec. in All-round Man (1994) 143 Yet there is studiousness, gentleness, wit, spiritualness in the English that I love.

2016 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 28 Feb. a1 He was not formally religious, he did not go to church, but everything he did, everything he said, had that spiritualness to it.

?1526 J. Fisher Serm. conc. Heretickes sig. G The worde of god..so worketh in the hartes of true virgins, that in maner it leaueth no carnalitie there, but chaungeth all in to a spiritualnes, that it maketh them to dispise all thoughtes, all affections, al workes, that be carnall.

1648 R. Prier Looking-glass for Proud Pharisee x. 312 The man in whose heart the Child Jesus is born..sees Christ as God-man, ful of divine amiableness and sweetnesses of beauty, and unspeakable comeliness of the spiritualnesses in Christ, when he was vailed with his flesh.

a1658 J. Durham Comm. Revelation (1660) i. 29 To be in the spirit is..to be in a spiritualnesse abstracted from carnalnesse.