Middlingness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Middling \Mid"dling\, a.
     Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally
     distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre;
     ordinary. "A town of but middling size." --Hallam.
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           Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling
           circumstances of its inhabitants.        --Hawthorne.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Mid"dling*ly}, adv. -- {Mid"dling*ness},
     n.
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