Fineness, 1) purity, freedom from base mixtures: Err. IV, 1, 29. Troil. I, 3, 22.
2) capacity for refined conceptions, ingenuity: “those that with the f. of their souls by reason guide his execution,” Troil. I, 3, 209.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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