[f. QUEER a.1 + -NESS.] Strangeness († reluctance); queer ways, condition, etc. Also, an instance of this.
1687. Bp. Trelawny, in T. Papers, Camden Misc. (1853), II. 19. There seemed a greate querenesse in them to the signing of it.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. 171. Queernesses I could not away with.
1821–30. Ld. Cockburn, Mem., 54. The boys stared at him for his queerness.
1879. Atcherley, Trip Boërland, 43. Six or eight [oxen] were lying dead, and the whole … were showing unmistakable signs of queerness.
