farness

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For at times he will be in a condition of great nearness, at times in a condition of some farness, or, more properly speaking, of obscurity.

From The Golden Fountain or, The Soul's Love for God. Being some Thoughts and Confessions of One of His Lovers by Staveley, Lilian

But when his face was partly in shadows, particularly about his brow, there was a frightening tone which came into his features; for it was a tone of farness, of mysticism and conjuration.

From Doom of the House of Duryea by Peirce, Earl

They were so dark a gray that they seemed brown, and there were a farness and alertness of vision in them as of bright questing through profounds of space.

From The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack

But so much the further from Thee, as the unliker Thee; for it is not farness of place.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

Cease ye this farness; 'bate this pride of you, iv.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir