clearness
Noun
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Noun
clearness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Brightness, brilliancy. [14th-17thc.]
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:19.15?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xv], in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
- Thenne sayd he Fair swete fader Ihesu Cryst yf euer I dyd thyng that pleasyd the lord / for thy pyte ne haue me not in despyte for my synnes done afore tyme / and that thou shewe me some thynge of that I seke / And with that he sawe the chamber dore open and there came oute a grete clerenes / that the hows was as bryghte as all torches of the world had ben there
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:19.15?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter xv], in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
- Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc. [from 16thc.]
- 1966, "The Lowest Depths", Time, 6 September:
- The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.
- 1966, "The Lowest Depths", Time, 6 September:
- The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc. [from 17thc.]
- The clearness of the water meant I could still see the key lying on the river-bed.
- The state of being free from obstruction or interference. [from 17thc.]
- The clearness of the path made for an easy hike.
- Spanish: claridad
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