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English
Etymology
From Middle English hersumnesse, from Old English hīersumnes (“obedience”), equivalent to hearsome + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian hearsumens (“obedience”).
Noun
hearsomeness (uncountable)
- (rare) Obedience; submission to authority.
1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:Thus the hearsomeness of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis.
1993, John Bishop, Joyce's Book of the Dark:[…] his awakened "hearsomeness" causing him to misconstrue the sound, along Aristotelean lines, as the sound of thunder.
1996, Christine Froula, Modernism's body:The cultural "bonum" that arrives by her Grace, issuing from the "malo" (apple/evil) of this "foenix culprit," consists in her streaming urine/words, which the Jarl's felicitous "hearsomeness" — his passion to keep her within his hearing and heir-ing […]