[f. LINEAL a. + -ITY.] The quality of being lineal; chiefly with reference to modes of writing, uniformity of direction.
1828–32. Webster, Lineality, the state of being in the form of a line. Am. Review.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta, II. xxx. 6. The luxuriant curves departed, a compressed lineality was to be observed everywhere.
1881. I. Pitman, Phonographic Phrase Bk., 43. The principal requisites of phraseography are legibility, easy joinings, and lineality in writing.
1888. Effective Advertiser, No. 42. 45. The system [Taylor’s Shorthand] is laborious … but perhaps less so than the Gurney system, because of its better Lineality.
