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† deˈsidiousness Obs.
[f. prec. + -ness.]
Idleness, indolence, slothfulness.
a1540Leland Let. to Cromwell in Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 68 The Germanes perceiving our desidiousness and negligence do send daily young Scholars hither, that spoileth them [ancient authors] and cutteth them out of libraries, returning home and putting them abroad as monuments of their own country [etc.]. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xxxviii. (1739) 58 This dissidiousness of the greater sort made one step further to the full perfection of that manner of Trial. 1651Ibid. ii. vi. (1739) 33 He found the People..vexed at his Grandfather's desidiousness. |