rare. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Superb character or quality.

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1696.  Phillips (ed. 5), Superbness, Pride, Haughty Disdain.

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1898.  G. W. Cable, Grandissimes, xiv. 76. It was a femininity without humanity—something that made her, with all her superbness, a creature that one would want to find chained.

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