[f. as prec. + -NESS.] August quality; supreme majesty, grandeur or stateliness.

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1758.  H. Walpole, R. & Noble Authors (1806), IV. 52. Daunted at the augustness of such an assembly.

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1871.  Browning, Pr. Hohenstiel, 1903. Truth, Right, And other such augustnesses.

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