Meanings
nounfeatness (uncountable)
- archaicuncountableSkill; adroitness.
Why want to go afar Where pitfalls are, When all we swains adore Your featness more and more
1925, Thomas Hardy, “An Expostulation”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (poem), lines 1-4, page 760
Origin
From feat + -ness. Piecewise doublet of factness.
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