greatnes
English
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editgreatnes (countable and uncountable, plural greatneses)
- Obsolete form of greatness.
- 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:
- But in deede, the ſecret cauſe that brought Ageſilaus to conſent vnto this practiſe, was the greatnes of his dette which he ought, of the which he hoped to be diſcharged by chaunging of the ſtate and common wealth.
Old English
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editNoun
editgrēatnes f (nominative plural grēatnessa)
- greatness, bigness, thickness, coarseness of a material
Declension
editDeclension of grēatnes (strong ō-stem)
Descendants
edit- Middle English: gretnesse, greetnesse, gretnes
References
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “greátnes”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.