greatnes

greatnes (countable and uncountable, plural greatneses)

1. Obsolete form of greatness.
   • 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:

     But in deede, the ſecret cauſe that brought Ageſilaus to conſent vnto this practiſe, was the greatnes of his dette which he ought, of the which he hoped to be diſcharged by chaunging of the ſtate and common wealth.

• grēatnys

From grēat +‎ -nes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡræ͜ɑːt.nes/

grēatnes f (nominative plural grēatnessa)

1. greatness, bigness, thickness, coarseness of a material

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: gretnesse, greetnesse, gretnes
  • English: greatness
  • Scots: gretnes, gretenes, greitnes

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “greátnes”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.