featness

Skill; adroitness.

Noun

  1. Skill; adroitness.
    • Why want to go afar Where pitfalls are, When all we swains adore Your featness more and more - 1925, Thomas Hardy, “An Expostulation”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (poem), lines 1-4, page 760:

Origin

From feat + -ness. Piecewise doublet of factness.