costliness

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Etymology

From costly +‎ -ness.

Noun

costliness (usually uncountable, plural costlinesses)

  1. The characteristic of being costly.
    • 1837, L E L, “The Influence of the Dead”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 270:
      It was not large, but of unusual height, and fitted up with great costliness. The bookcases were ebony, inlaid with green morocco, and so were the tables, and the curtains were of crimson velvet.

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