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ˈneshness
[f. nesh a. + -ness.]
Softness, weakness; † lack of courage.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxi. 159 Ðære tidernesse & ðære hnescnesse ures flæsces we beoð underðiedde. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xi. 8 Ðone monno mið hnescnisum ᵹeweded [L. hominem mollibus vestitum]. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 324 Wið innoðes astyrunge, ᵹenim þyses wæstmes hnescnysse innewearde. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 287 Som men seide þat þat myshap fel for neschenesse of Englisch men. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 29 Þe senewe haþ .ij. oþere defautis: neischenesse and liȝtnesse. 1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) x. vi. 380/1 The Iacke..by his softenesse & nesshenesse softeth & feynteth all strokes that cometh there ayenst. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 7 b, To be borne a woman declares weakenes of spirite, neshenes of body, and fikilnesse of mynde. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle, Sheepe (1627) 225 When any Sheep by running out or neashnes of his dung, doe ray and defile his taile. 1610Markham Masterp. i. li. 106 There is also another consumption..which proceedeth from neshnesse, tendernesse, freenesse of spirit. 1874Hardy Far from Madding Crowd xli, I should be inclined to think it was from general neshness of constitution. |