rare. Also 6 -finesse. [f. prec. adj. + -NESS; in early use after FINESSE.] The quality of being superfine; excessive refinement.
1575. G. Harvey, Letter-Bk. (Camden), 93. That is another fitt of your mill, violent, celestiall, incomprehensible, peremptorye superfinesse.
1575. Gascoigne, Glasse Govt., I. v. Wks. 1910, II. 23. I could rather content my self to be buryed … then to live in such a miserable and precise world as this is, Oh what Superfinesse are we now grown unto?
1862. Fraser’s Mag., July, 74. A work of … much subtle sweetness and delicacy, tending, however, to pass into tenuity and superfineness.
