Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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RA'RENESS, noun
1. The state of being uncommon; uncommonness; infrequency.
And let the rareness the small gift commend.
2. Value arising from scarcity.
3. Thinness; tenuity; as the rareness of air or vapor.
4. Distance from each other; thinness.