litherness

noun — 2 senses

litherness

noun

Etymology From lither + -ness.

1

Obsolete Wickedness.

2

Obsolete Laziness, indifference.

Let her hardly remit this vocall lithernesse unto evill, if it be neither cordiall, nor stomacall.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.