[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being charming; power to charm.

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1730–6.  in Bailey.

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1821.  Examiner, 14 Jan., 25/2. Even foreign authors, whose praise they undertook to echo for their naivete, must be elevated, they thought, or it was all over with their charmingness.

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1840.  L. Hunt, Leg. Florence, I. iii. Be sure you make your wife well … With some transcendent charmingness.

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