[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being united; union.
1636. Drumm. of Hawth., Fam. Ep., Wks. (1711), 151. So harmonious an Unitedness, as hath so long continued between us.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., VIII. xlv. Be ever-ever-ever blest, ô Trine! Ever Unitednesse divine!
1679. King, in Spirit of Popery, 37. Harmony and Unitedness in things.
1864. Pusey, Lect. Daniel, viii. 498. The assurance of a deathless unbroken unitedness with God.
1894. G. Griffith, trans. Fouard’s St. Paul, xii. 296. The opening passage of this Epistle [to Timothy]—one of the most moving that ever fell from his lips—is an outburst of holy joy, an act of thanksgiving for the spirit of unitedness now restored among them.
