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glibness|ˈglɪbnɪs|
Also 7 glibbe-, glibbiness.
[f. glib a. + -ness.]
The quality of being glib.
1. Smoothness; slipperiness.
1611Cotgr., Glissade, a slip, or slipping..; also, glibnesse. 1615Chapman Odyss. xii. 130 A polisht ice-like glibnesse doth enfold The rocke so round. 1631Sanderson Serm. (1664) ii. 9 A kinde of gentle softnesse, and smoothnesse, and supple glibbiness: wherewith the touch is much delighted. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies xiv. 125 The glibbenesse of Mercury and of melted mettalls. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady i. x. §4 (1734) 98 The Fluids [are]..only intended to preserve them [solids] in due Plight, Glibness [etc.]. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 97 Our organs..continue the motions we put them into, after they have gone out of our sight, thereby working themselves to a glibness and smoothness.
2. Facility, readiness.
1631Massinger Believe as you List iii. iii. (1849) 55 With what glibnesse My flatteries, oyl'd with hopes of future greatnesse, Are swallow'd by this dull pate.
3. Fluency, volubility.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 10 Physicians judge of the body's health, not..by the glibness of the tongue..but by the pulse of the arm. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 232 A current glibness in the utterance of any language. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxiv, The word slips out of their lips with..glibness. 1865Sat. Rev. 11 Mar. 284 He..said what he had to say with the usual glibness. |