English

Noun

sickerness ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete) the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance.
2. (archaic) security; safety; freedom from danger.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

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

   • 1980, John Skelton, ‎Paula Neuss, Magnificence - Page 215':

     Comprehending the world casual and transitory, Who list to consider shall never be beguiled, If it be regist'red well in memory; A plain example of worldly vainglory: How in this world there is no sickerness, But fallible flattery enmixed with bitterness.