[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being victorious.
1705. trans. Bosman’s Guinea, 4. Several Authors have represented Guinea as a Mighty Kingdom, whose Prince by his Victoriousness had subdued numerous Countries.
1805. A. Knox, Rem. (1834), I. 38. I will add another instance of Christian victoriousness.
1851. J. H. Newman, Cath. in Eng., 369. I have an intense feeling in me about the power and victoriousness of truth.
1876. M. Arnold, Last Ess. Ch. (1877), 144. No one has spoken more truly … of the natural victoriousness of virtue.
