[f. LEARNED + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being learned.

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1646.  E. F[isher], Mod. Divinity (ed. 2), 227. Are there not some who give themselves to … learnednesse and clerklike skill in this art and that language?

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1681.  H. More, Exp. Dan., 72. By reason of their Learnedness in the Law.

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1869.  Lond. Q. Rev., Jan., 266. He is a stumbling-block … to all conventional learnedness.

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1879.  G. Meredith, Egoist, II. ii. 29. The doctor’s learnedness would be a subject to dilate on.

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