"hardnesse" meaning in Middle English

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  "etymology_text": "From Old English heardness; equivalent to hard + -nesse.",
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        {
          "english": "As it is to see things present to the sight, here the sound present to the ears, touch hardness, softness, heat, or cold present to the touch, and so forth of others.",
          "ref": "a. 1460, Reginald Pecock, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock, The Donet, Early English Text Society, published 1921",
          "text": "As it is forto se þingis present to þᵉ siȝt, heere þᵉ sown present to þᵉ eeris, touche hardnesse, neischnes, heet, or coold present to þᵉ touche, & so forþe of oþire.",
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        "hardness, the quality of being hard"
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  "word": "hardnesse"
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  "etymology_text": "From Old English heardness; equivalent to hard + -nesse.",
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        {
          "english": "As it is to see things present to the sight, here the sound present to the ears, touch hardness, softness, heat, or cold present to the touch, and so forth of others.",
          "ref": "a. 1460, Reginald Pecock, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock, The Donet, Early English Text Society, published 1921",
          "text": "As it is forto se þingis present to þᵉ siȝt, heere þᵉ sown present to þᵉ eeris, touche hardnesse, neischnes, heet, or coold present to þᵉ touche, & so forþe of oþire.",
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        "hardness, the quality of being hard"
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