Definition of "selectness" []

• The property of being select. (noun)

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• "It was in many ways an inspiration; it gave him zeal, a Puritan word much ridiculed by the Royalists; it gave refinement, distinction, selectness, elevation to his picture of the world."
• "The Believers 'Rally, as will be understood, was a gathering of some selectness."
• "Sicilian, or Græco-Sicilian vases, though inferior in number and selectness to those of the Vatican, or Museo-Borbonico."