litherness

English

Etymology

From lither +‎ -ness.

Noun

litherness (uncountable)

(obsolete) Wickedness.
(obsolete) Laziness, indifference.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  , II.37:
  Let her hardly remit this vocall lithernesse unto evill, if it be neither cordiall, nor stomacall.

Anagrams

inshelters, shrinelets

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