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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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(Victoriusnes,) Victoriousness, n. [18th c. Eng. victoriousness (1705).] The state of being victorious. — 1660 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 701.
There is a bad way of wilful swallowing of a temptation, and not digesting it, or laying it out of memory without any victoriousness of faith
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