previousness

The priest will of course require the youthful sinners to confess and do penance for their previousness before he will marry them.

There was comment on "the previousness of Herr Rumpler"�Herr Manager Rumpler of the famed Rumpler Airplane Works, Germany�when he addressed the Society for the Scientific Study of Aircraft Development at Dusseldorf last week.

A flash of good sense showed her the previousness of her calculations, and she mentally withdrew her hand from meddling.

There are handsome buildings in Denver—blocks that would do credit to any city under the sun; but there was for years an upstart air, a palpable provincialism, a kind of ill-disguised "previousness," noticeable that made her seem like the brisk suburb of some other place, and that other place, alas! invisible to mortal eye.

But the previousness is perplexing.