inwardness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IN'WARDNESS, noun Intimacy; familiarity. [Not used.] 1. Internal state. [Unusual.] IN'WARDS, noun plural The inner parts of an animal; the bowels; the viscera. Exodus 29:1.
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