rare. [-NESS.] Starry quality.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Starriness, Fulness of Stars.
1830. Blackw. Mag., XXVII. 848. Let the heaven of thy imagination be spanned in its starriness by that most celestial Evanescence.
1879. Meredith, Egoist, v. She had money and health and beauty, the triune of perfect starriness, which makes all men astronomers.
1910. Bridges, Later Poems, No. 8. As she drifteth free Between the starriness of the air And the starry lea.
