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  • noun The state of being seared, cauterized, or hardened; hardness; hence, insensibility.

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  • noun The state of being seared or callous; insensibility.

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  • noun The state of being seared or callous; insensibility.

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seared +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Apologies for such, argue searedness, not tenderness: such "evil communication" as "corrupteth good manners," is not to be tolerated.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • But if the man feels none of these stings or remorses, his condition is infinitely worse: he is sealed up under a spirit of searedness, and reprobation, and an invincible curse.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • But alas! such is commonly either the blindness of our minds, the hardness of our hearts, or the searedness of our consciences, or rather the spiritual lethargy (as I may so term it) of our souls, that most of us sleep in as great security in the midst of all manner of judgments, as Jonas did in the midst of that storm which his own disobedience had raised.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • And here it will be requisite to shew what this searedness of conscience means: which I shall endeavour to explain from that place of scripture in 1 Tim. iv.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

  • When there is a benumbedness, or searedness, upon the grand principle of spiritual sense, so that, as it is expressed in

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

  • By delivering up a sinner to a stupidity or searedness of conscience, 151.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

  • This is its highest pitch and perfection; and it seems seldom to be entertained, but where hypocrisy is in conjunction with gross ignorance or judicial searedness.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823

  • He sits not in the seat of the scornful; he does not repose himself with those that sit down secure in their wickedness and please themselves with the searedness of their own consciences.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state.

    The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast. 1629-1699 1856

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