searedness

English

Etymology

From seared +‎ -ness.

Noun

searedness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being seared or callous; insensibility.
    • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:
      He wonders at my extreme prodigality of credit, and searedness of conscience, in citing an epistle so convicted by Bellarmine!

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