featness

English

Etymology

feat +‎ -ness

Noun

featness (uncountable)

1. (archaic) skill; adroitness
   • 1925, Thomas Hardy, “An Expostulation”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (poem), lines 1-4, page 760:

     Why want to go afar
     Where pitfalls are,
     When all we swains adore
     Your featness more and more

References

“featness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.