Searedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being seared or callous; insensibility. uncountable

    "He wonders at my extreme prodigality of credit, and searedness of conscience, in citing an epistle so convicted by Bellarmine!"

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"He wonders at my extreme prodigality of credit, and searedness of conscience, in citing an epistle so convicted by Bellarmine!"

Etymology

From seared + -ness.

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