hoarness en · NOUN
Etymology
From hoar + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being hoar.
To mark this absolutism of change over the works of man is both pleasing and profitable, for what is more emotional than to observe the hoarness, the mellowness, and the natural final decay of objects whose beginnings date almost from the immemorial […] ?
1871, The Antiquary, volumes 1-2, page 13: