[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being craggy; ruggedness.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. iv. 26. The Mountainous craggines of the country.
1680. Morden, Geog. Rect. (1685), 251. Its high Hills … thought unpleasant objects for their cragginess.
1735–6. Carte, Ormonde, I. 319. By the hardness and cragginess of the ways, their feet had been so hurt.
1883. J. Burroughs, in Century Mag., XXVII. 112/1. On and about Ben Nevis there is barrenness, cragginess, and desolation.
