[f. ACTUAL a. + -NESS.] = ACTUALITY.

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  † 1.  Active working or operation, activity. Obs.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VIII. xxviii. (1495), 340. One poynt of lyghte or of shynynge were suffysaunt to beshyne alle the world, for noblynesse of matere and for moast actualnesse and doynge of fourme.

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1742.  Bailey, Actuality, Actualness, Perfection of being.

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  2.  The quality of being actual, actuality.

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1668.  Wilkins, Real Char., II. 1. § 3, 28. Actualness, existence, extant.

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1755.  in Johnson.

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1876.  Mrs. Whitney, Sights & Ins., II. xiv. 441. The real fact through whose vitality and actualness the stones were put one upon another.

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