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sickerness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English sikirnes, sikernesse, Old English sicornes (“certainty; secureness”), equivalent to sicker (“secure”) + -ness.

  1. inherited from sicornes — “certainty; secureness”
  2. inherited from sikirnes

Definitions

  1. the state, condition, or quality of being certain

    the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance.

  2. security

    security; safety; freedom from danger.

    • Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore, / From her dull horse, in desperate distresse, / And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for sickerness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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