[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being English, or of displaying English characteristics.
1804. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., I. 512. The Englishness of several fairy-tales supposed to be French.
1838. New Monthly Mag., LIII. 118. The Englishness of everything about man, woman, and child born in the island.
1884. Athenæum, 19 Jan., 93/3. The attraction of the face of the Hon. G. Seymour Conway … lies in its Englishness.
