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lewdness|ˈljuːdnɪs|
[See -ness.]
†1. Ignorance; want of skill, knowledge, or good-breeding; foolishness. Obs.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 33 Schal no lewednesse hem lette, þe lewedeste þat I loue, Þat he ne worþ avaunset. c1386Chaucer Melib. Prol. 3 Thou makest me So wery of thy verray lewednesse. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 299 Among his oþer lewednes and folie. c1440Promp. Parv. 301/2 Lewdenesse of clergy, illitteratura. c1440Gesta Rom. viii. 21 (Harl. MS.), I am a foole, And he is a wise man, And þerfore he shold not so liȝtely haue levid my lewdenesse. 1540R. Hyrde Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) R vj, What a lewdnesse is it, not to consider how vaine a thing that money is. 1563Homilies ii. Agst. Images iii. (1859) 265 There is like foolishness and lewdness in decking of our images. 1576Fleming Panopl. Ep. 80 That is supposed a loose kinde of writing, to talke of any man unreverently, for therein is leudnesse discovered.
†2. Wickedness; evil behaviour. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 239 So it is greet lewednesse and wrecchednesse to forgendre what is detty and riȝtful. c1460Sir R. Ros La Belle Dame sanz Mercy 607 (655) That to þe werste turneth by his leudenesse a yifte of grace. 1563Homilies ii. Repentance ii. (1859) 541 When any thing ordained of God is by the lewdness of men abused. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastell 736 It is great leudenesse and deceiptfulnes to vrge the termes vsed by the doctors. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 321 The leaudnesse of the Cappadocians grew into a Proverbe; if any were enormously wicked, he was therefore called a Cappadocian. 1623Bingham Xenophon 99 What Citie, as friend, will receiue vs, when they see such lewdnesse in our conuersation?
3. Lasciviousness, lascivious behaviour.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 44 A perfect wit is never bewitched with leaudenesse neither entised with lasciviousnesse. a1592H. Smith Serm (1614) 568 If harlots intice thee to leaudnesse,..flie from them. 1661Pepys Diary 17 Aug., The lewdnesse and beggary of the Court. 1685H. More Illustrat. 155 Their gross idolatries and sensual Ludenesses. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iv. 145 The Lewdness of their History renders it unfit to be narrated. 1769Blackstone Comm. iv. iv. 64 The last offence which I shall mention..is that of open and notorious lewdness; either by frequenting houses of ill-fame..or by some grossly scandalous and public indecency. |