Unctuousness

Also 4 vnctuosnes. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being unctuous.

1

1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. xxxiii. (Bodl. MS.). Somme vnctuous þinges greueþ þe breste w^t drynes þ^t is þerin, as it fareþ in oile of nottes, for suche haue not pure vnctuosnes.

2

1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxix. (1658), 316. Softnesse, unctuousnesse, and viscousnesse, encreaseth blacknesse.

3

1682. T. Gibson, Anat. (1697), 25. Whilst Nature takes care that it … besmear both the Stomach and Intestines with its Unctuousness.

4

1705. Addison, Italy (1733), 140. Its Unctuousness will make it heavy.

5

1758. Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chym., I. 23. We shall afterwards see that, bating this unctuousness, it has none of the properties of oils.

6

1891. W. A. Jamieson, Dis. Skin (ed. 3), i. 11. The office of the coil glands is to impart unctuousness to the skin.

7

fig. 1866. Pall Mall G., 3 Jan. The coarse, self-exhibiting unctuousness with which his book overflows.

8