[f. TRITE a. + -NESS.] The quality of being trite; commonplaceness.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Triteness, wornness, the being much worn.
1755. Johnson, Triteness, staleness; commonness.
1780. Mirror, No. 80. There is one class of writers to whom the charge of triteness does … very little apply.
1791–1823. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1858), III. 63, note. Triteness and triviality are fatal to a proverb.
1910. Scott. Hist. Rev., Oct., 17. Telling his story with the triteness and circumspection of a lawyer.
