rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being anxious, anxiety.

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1658.  Manton, Exp. Jude, Wks. 1871, V. 21. An anxiousness about their everlasting state.

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1798.  Southey, Occas. Pieces, xi. Wks. II. 241. A husband’s love, a father’s anxiousness.

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1847.  Bushnell, Chr. Nurt., II. ii. (1861), 266. Where there is but little faith, there is apt to be great anxiousness.

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