rare1. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being sporadic.

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1884.  Whitney, in Amer. Jrnl. Philol., V. 287. This [the precative active] also, indeed, is rare even to sporadicalness, being, so far as I know, made from only about 60 roots in the whole language—and of these, only half can show forms containing the true precative s.

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1898.  G. W. Richards, in Ref. Ch. Rev., Ser. IV. II. 449. But even these geniuses of prophecy were a type of one to come. There was still an effort and a sporadicalness in their activity. They saw as through a glass darkly.

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1909.  Vermont Missionary, 1 March, 4/1. A clear consciousness of our utilized and mutualized abilities and possibilities as a denomination, when waste is stopped and unified endeavor takes the place of sporadicalness.

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