familiarness (familyarnes)

Familiarity. Let not the familiarne or frequency of such providences cause them to be neglected by us, to improve them as God would have us, to fear before him. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 320. familiaryt (fa-mil'i-a-ri), a. [ mestic. IMG:content-1070.png:[blocks in formation] it too great a turn of familiarity. Add is on, On Virgil's Georgics. Again, let me tell you, Madam, Familiarity breeds Contempt: You'll never leave till you have made me saucy. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, iv. Familiarity in inferiors is saucine ; in superiors, condescension; neither of which are to have being anong companions, the very word implying that they are to be Steele , Tatler, No. 225. equal. That long familiarity whereby a singer's audience becomes somewhat weary of his notes. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 151. 2. An unusual liberty in act or speech from one person toward another; a freedom of conduct justified only by the most intimate relations, or exercised without warrant; an act of personal license, in either a good or a bad sense: most frequently in the plural: as, the familiarities of intimate friendship; his famili arities were repulsive.-3. In astrol., any kind of aspect or reception. = Syn. 1. Acquaintance, etc. (see acquaintance ), familiar knowledge, fellowship, friend. ship, sociability. See list under affability.