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litherness

noun

Etymology

From lither + -ness.

  1. inherited from *(s)lew-✻ — “limp, slack”
  2. inherited from *lūþrijaz✻ — “bad; dissolute; neglected; useless”
  3. inherited from lȳþre — “bad, wicked; base, mean, wretched; corrupt”
  4. inherited from lither
  5. suffixed as litherness — “lither + ness”

Definitions

  1. Wickedness.

  2. Laziness, indifference.

    • Let her hardly remit this vocall lithernesse unto evill, if it be neither cordiall, nor stomacall.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA