ˈdailiness
[f. daily a. + -ness.]
The quality of being daily; daily occurrence, etc.
| 1607 Hieron Wks. I. 135 There are very few duties of religion, but the scripture speaks of the dailines of them. a 1670 Hacket Chr. Consolations ii. (1840) 19 The dailiness of sin must be bewailed with the dailiness of sorrow. 1898 A. Bennett Man from North xix, The drab dailiness of her existence in Carteret Street. 1899 Academy 14 Oct. 432/1 That which Mrs. Meynell has well called the ‘dailiness’ of life. 1906 Daily Chron. 22 May 6/6 All necessary implication of dailiness has long disappeared from the word ‘journal’. 1906 E. V. Lucas Wand. in Lond. i. 9 Perhaps a touch of grime is not unnecessary. Perhaps houses can be too clean for the truest human dailiness. 1935 W. J. Blyton Country Airs viii. 74 Our homely, uncouth husbandry, with its divine humilities and dailiness. |