orientness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]orientness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) brightness; splendour.
- Synonym: oriency
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
- But , waving these advantages , such of that mystery which trade with country - people herein , gain much by buying their pearls , though far short of the Indian in Orientness
References
[edit]- “orientness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.