brackishnessn.
The quality of being salty or brackish; also figurative.
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brinage1610
salsitude1623
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1571 A. Golding in tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. Ep. Ded. sig. *.iiij The bitter fountaine Exampeus..with its brackishnes marreth the sweete river Hipanis.
a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iii. §3 Some of those acts of ours..may at the first tast have some of the brackishnes of sin.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 13 Their Cisterns preserve water (without the least brackishness) always sweet.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 694 Spirituous liquors..used to correct the brackishness of the water.
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