clearness

clearness
a) Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.

And with that he saw the chambir dore opyn, and there cam oute a grete clerenesse, that the house was as bryght as all the tourcheis of the worlde had bene there.

b) The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.

The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.


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