rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Specific character or quality.
1682. H. More, Annot. Glanvill’s Lux O., 233. For a Spirit is nothing else but such a specifick simple Substance or Essence, the Specifickness of whose nature onely is its real intimate Form.
1727. in Bailey (vol. II.).
1852. Lynch, Lett. to Scattered, 249. There should be much specificness in prayer, yet may too large a portion of our prayer be specific. Ibid., 251. Peculiar natural character will give specificness to a man’s sins.
