weightiness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WEIGHTINESS, noun 1. Ponderousness; gravity; heaviness. 2. Solidity; force; impressiveness; power of convincing; as the weightiness of an argument. 3. Importance.
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