rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Continued state or quality, continuity.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 27. It behooues also that his parts hold a certaine kind of continuednesse, and that they bee not deuided.
1630. T. Williamson, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. cxlvi. 4. See we now the continuednesse, exit, ‘it goeth forth.’
1656. [? J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripat. Inst., 120. All quantity whatever must … by continuednesse, conspire into one bulk.
