[-NESS.] The state of being welcome or of being welcomed.
1620. Swetnam Arraigned (1880), 61. Oh, Madame, I haue such welcomenesse! For me, what is’t?
1660. Boyle, Seraph. Love, § xxv. (1700), 151. Yet will they [sc. our joys] really still continue new … upon the scores of their welcomness and Freshness.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1778), I. 113. (Montriul) The poor little fellow press’d it [the snuff-box] upon them with a nod of welcomeness … Prenez en—prenez, said he.
