[f. prec. + -NESS.] The state or condition of being exposed.

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1620.  Bp. Hall, Hon. Mar. Clergie, I. § 23. The exposednesse of the city to sale.

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a. 1665.  J. Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit (1867), 191. An exposedness unto trouble.

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c. 1741.  Brainerd, in Edwards, Life, i. (1851), 5. Showed me so plainly my exposedness to damnation.

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1863.  J. G. Murphy, Comm. Gen. xi. 25. Shame implies … an exposedness to the searching eye of a condemning judge.

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