featness

noun

featness

noun

Etymology From feat + -ness. Piecewise doublet of factness.

1

Archaic Skill; adroitness.

Why want to go afar Where pitfalls are, When all we swains adore Your featness more and more1925, Thomas Hardy, “An Expostulation”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (poem), lines 1-4, page 760:

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