[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being forced.
1660. H. More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, V. xvi. 193. So much of forcedness and incoherency is there in the making out this false Hypothesis.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Plover.… When they approach, be sure you do not make your Birds stir at all, for in that Case, they would soon perceive by the Forcedness of the Motion, that they were ty’d.
1704. Worthington, Millennium, in Miscell., 2. Some there are that understand the First Resurrection in a Spiritual Sense, viz. from the Death of Sin: Against the Forcedness and Incongruity of this Sense much might be said.
