Universalness

[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being universal; universality.

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1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Instit., III. 310. The vniuersalnesse of y^e promise.

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1587. Golding, De Mornay, Pref. xxx. The vniuersalnesse of this consent.

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1642. H. More, Song of Soul, II. I. ii. 46. They’ll object Gainst th’ universalnesse of this clear notion.

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a. 1680. Charnock, Attrib. God (1834), I. 56. The universalness of his knowledge.

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1880. Schaff, Person of Christ, 158. The universalness of his character and mission.

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1888. Longm. Mag., July, 255. The apparent universalness of what is presented to them in quantity.

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