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Webster 1828 Edition

Litherness

LI'THERNESS

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Noun.

Idleness; laziness. Obs.

Definition 2025

litherness

litherness

English

Noun

litherness ‎(uncountable)

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