[f. next + -NESS.] Creaturely state or quality.
1854. Trench, Synon. N. T., xlii. (1876), 145. The acknowledgment … of creatureliness, of absolute dependence, of having nothing, but receiving all things of God.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. VI. vi. 233. This … process which seeks … to transcend humanity and creatureliness.
