lastness

noun

lastness

noun

Etymology From last + -ness.

1

The quality of being or coming last; finality.

  • '[…] The thing has gone and I am branded as the last to handle it.' 'Yes, yes,' said Carrados, […] '[…] There stands the man we want, as plain as a pikestaff for us, only you and your lastness get between so persistently that we cannot see him.'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

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