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† ˈtickleness Obs.
[f. tickle a. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being tickle; insecurity, instability; critical situation, precariousness; inconstancy; uncertainty.
c1390Chaucer Truth 3 Suffise þin owen þing þei it be smal For horde haþe hate & Clymbyng tykelnesse [v.rr. tekil-, tikul-]. 1549in Tytler Eng. under Edw. VI, etc. (1839) I. 232 Weighing as well the state of the things above, as also the tickleness of the country. a1625in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 182, I found such tickleness in the performance of such charges, that..my prayers will be full of fear. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 137 According to the tickleness of its lodging in the machina mundi. |