[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being feigned; † deceitfulness; insincerity.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 58. With-oute cessyng to Ioy of godis sight, all fenydnes put bak.
1535. Coverdale, Ecclus. i. 30. Thy hert is full of faynednes and disceate.
1587. J. Harmar, Beza’s Serm., iii. 39. The church is not the school of fainednesse & hypocrisie, but of truth and syncerity.
1683. Wilkinson, in Mem. J. Story Revived, 7. He … greatly abhorred Feignedness.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), II. II. II. ii. 162. As this Selfishness increases in us, so must a certain Subtlety, and Feignedness of Carriage, which naturally accompanys it.
