[f. CHEAP a. + -NESS.] Quality of being cheap; lowness of price or cost; also fig. (see CHEAP a.)

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1550.  Royal Procl., in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. xxvii. (1721), II. 222. In plentiful Sort and Cheapness of Price.

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1568.  Grafton, Chron., II. 234. For lacke of money … victuall came to such reasonable cheapnesse and price.

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1678.  Wanley, Wond. Lit. World, VI. xxvii. 611. Allured with the cheapness of the Rent.

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1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 454, ¶ 6. I resolved to walk it, out of Cheapness.

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1745.  De Foe’s Eng. Tradesm. (1841), II. xxxviii. 108. Cheapness causes consumption.

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1875.  Jevons, Money (1878), 133. The cheapness of the material.

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