unevennessn.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iv. iii. e vj b/1 Roughnesse is not elles but an vneuynnesse in an harde thynge.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iv. iv. e viij/2 Contrary humours werke contraryousnes and vneuynnesse with roughnes in the vtter parte of the body.

1562 P. Whitehorne tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre iii. f. xlix^v Also the vneuenesse of the grounde saueth them, for that euery little hillocke, or high place..letteth the shot therof.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 115 His cheekebones would bee euen and small, for..the vneuennes of the Cheekes, will make him hedstrong.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 51 Hils of stupendious height and vneuennesse to ascend.

a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. iii. 200 We plainly observe much..Unevenness and Inequality in the Lines, and Bluntness in the Angles.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Nat. Hist. 82/2 Which extreme agitation and whirling, I presume, must be owing to the unevenness of the rocky bottom.

1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 3 The finger must be always used whenever, through unevenness of the surface, the pleximeter cannot be well applied.

1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 243/1 The painful unevenness of the principal roadways.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 12 b/2 If there remayne anye small splinter thereone, or other vnevennes.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 297 To phansy one and the same Hill for some little unevennesses in it to be more then one.

1680 Tides (Bodl. Add. A. 202) f. 3 In deep Rivers the surface conceales these unevenesses.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Filing To take off the Unevennesses of the Work, left by the Hammer, in Forging.

1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 88 An horizontal thin edge, which scooped up and carried off the little unevennesses of the turfy ground.

1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 140 There was not the slightest jag or unevenness—a tolerable proof of the sharpness of the sword.

a1637 B. Jonson Timber 700 in Wks. (1640) III They would not have it run without rubs, as if that stile were more strong and manly, that stroke the eare with a kind of unevenesse.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 254 Saturne was pressed with unevennesse or roughnesse, either in leaping, or speaking.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 327 The whimsical Unevenness of some People ruins the Pleasure of Conversation.

1779 S. Johnson Dryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 301 Such is the unevenness of his compositions, that [etc.].

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 395 The unevenness of disposition, the convulsive sobs and strong paroxysms of weeping.

1882 ‘L. Keith’ Alasnam's Lady III. 105 Di hardly noticed the unevenness of her mood.