sequaciousness
(sɪˈkweɪʃəsnɪs)
[f. sequacious a. + -ness.]
1. The state or condition of being sequacious.
| 1653 Gauden Hierasp. 69 Endless janglings..which would make Religion, a matter.. of sequaciousness and feminine softness. 1656 Artif. Handsom. 181 It is time..to get beyond that servility and sequaciousnesse of conscience. 1851 De Quincey Ld. Carlisle on Pope Wks. 1863 XII. 27 Pursuing them [sc. thoughts] through their unlinkings with the sequaciousness (pardon a Coleridgean word) that belongs to some process of creative nature. 1881 G. Allen Evolutionist at Large iii. 33 Another mountain trait in the stereotyped character of sheep is their well known sequaciousness. |
† 2. Ductility (of matter). Obs.
| a 1676 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. ii. (1677) 304 Although Almighty God be not bound or straitned in his Operation to the sequaciousness of the Matter. |