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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness.

Let not the

foreignness

of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right.

Locke.

foreignness

of complexion.

G. Eliot.

Noun.

for'anness. Remoteness; want of relation; as the foreignness of a subject from the main business.