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† lickerousness Obs.
[f. lickerous + -ness.]
Fondness for good fare; gen. keen appetite or desire. Const. of, after, inf. with to. Also, lecherousness.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 61 Likerousnesse & lustis of here bely. c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 611 Venus me yaf my lust, my likerousnesse. c1386― Pars. T. ⁋667 Auarice..is likerousnesse in herte to haue erthely thynges. c1440Promp. Parv. 304/2 Lykerowsnesse, delicacia. a1586Sidney Arcadia v. (1622) 450 Whether..the likerousnesse of dominion [can] make you beyond iustice. a1638Mede Wks. i. (1672) 128 As perhaps licorousness of Wine before had caused many of them to do. 1657Reeve God's Plea 129 A people..so given over to licorousnesse, that it is an hard thing to get a Cook to please them. 1665J. Spencer Vulg. Proph. 119 That natural liquorousness in the minds of men after the knowledg of things to come. |