[See -NESS.] The quality of being complemental, or (formerly) complimental.
1657. S. W., Schism Dispach’t, 164. Altering from plainess to complementalness. Ibid., 371. Nor can we imagin that our Saviour taught his Disciples that complementalnes as to sit constantly in their ranks at meat.
a. 1660. Hammond, Wks., II. 292. (R.). Complementalness, as opposed to plainness, must signifie giving titles of civility, that really do not belong to those, to whom they are thus given.
