Also 8 que(a)r-. [f. QUEER a.1 + -ITY.] Queerness, oddity.

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1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 17, ¶ 3. No Person … shall be admitted without a visible Quearity in his Aspect, or peculiar Cast of Countenance.

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1720–1.  Lett. fr. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), II. 303. When I survey the Querity of thy Aspect.

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a. 1849.  Poe, Marginalia, Wks. 1864, III. 555. The pages have now and then a typographical queerity.

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1880.  Blackmore, Mary Anerley, II. 146. York city, teeming … with most delightful queerities.

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