[f. next + -NESS.] The quality or fact of being extraordinary.
1628. Digby, Jrnl. (Camden), 56. The extraordinarinesse of the action.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., II. VIII. 189. Wherein the extraordinariness of it consisteth … I think it past mans reach to know.
a. 1703. Burkitt, On N. T., Luke iii. 17 (1739), 151/1. The extraordinariness of John the Baptist’s Person.
1881. Spectator, 19 Feb., 247/1. Some vital point…, which may result quite as easily from ‘ordinariness’ … as from extraordinariness.
b. humorously as a title of address.
1677–81. Mrs. Behn, Rover, III. i. 35. As for that matter, your Extraordinariness may do what you please.
