[f. as prec. + -NESS.]
† 1. The religious system of the Jews; Judaism.
1549. Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Gal. iv. 21. Suche of you, as are contented to fall backe to Iewishnes.
1550. Bale, Apol., 60. Christ will not have hys pure Gospell myngled with Iewyshnesse.
1627. W. Sclater, Exp. 2 Thess. (1629), 222. It sauours of Iewishness, rather then Christianity.
2. Jewish quality or character.
1822. New Monthly Mag., IV. 70. An air of Jewishness, or an old-clothesman-like expression.
1899. Speaker, 10 Feb., 133/2. The Jews of this country … are rapidly losing all their Jewishness.
