Obs. [f. CONDENSE a. + -NESS.] = CONDENSITY.

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1730–6.  in Bailey.

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1775.  in Ash.

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1838.  For. Q. Rev., XXI. 430. There is nothing like strength or condenseness of phrase in his [Cooper’s] works.

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1858.  A. Mitchell, Coloniad, 25.

        The frothy waters, o’er the pebbles hurl’d,
Lose their condenseness, and return unfurl’d.

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1920.  Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Remin. Lindenwood Coll., 80. The entire address was marked for its condenseness, practicability and pointedness.

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