? Obs. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Catholic quality, catholicity.
1605. A. Wotton, Answ. Pop. Articles, 34. Neither can you reasonably thinke, that the catholicknesse of the Church requires a continuall being in all places at once.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 6. The catholicness of their doctrine.
1664. More, Myst. Iniq., 284. Their … pretence to Catholickness or Universality.
1674. Brevint, Saul at Endor, 10 (R.). Thus one may judg of the catholikness, which Romanists brag of.
