gratuitousness
(grəˈtjuːɪtəsnɪs)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being gratuitous.
| 1727 Bailey vol. II, Gratuitousness, free Bestowment, without Expectation of Reward or Recompence. 1845 H. Rogers Ess. I. iii. 139 The perfect gratuitousness of salvation. 1852 Ibid. I. vii. 363 We can hardly excuse the perfect gratuitousness of his hypotheses. 1879 M. Pattison Milton xiii. 190 Here it is not..so much the unnatural character of the incident itself, as its gratuitousness which offends. |