choiceness

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Especially, if we consider the choiceness of the authors out of which they are furnished.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

Hence arose, as that vast number of his books, so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them, and that of all kinds, and in all sorts of learning.'

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)

On the previous undetermined days, Pierre had solicitously sought to disguise his emotions from his mother, by a certain carefulness and choiceness in his dress.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Among a people who, perhaps unjustly, have been prided for the choiceness of their swearing, the favourite growth and very spoilt-child of animosity is the word of an exceedingly forcible kind.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

His flow of ideas was not more remarkable than the choiceness and vigor of his expression.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various