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† ˈnoughtiness Obs. rare.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
a. Nothingness, worthlessness, vileness.
b. Badness, wickedness.
c1425tr. T. à Kempis' Consol. iii. ix, Al maner estimacion, be it neuer so litel, shal be drouned in þe valey of my nouȝtines [L. nihileitas]. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 270 b, The more they se theyr owne noughtynesse, and thinketh themselfe more and more vyle. 1551Turner Herbal i. (1568) 38 It may be the noughtines of the place may wonderfully minish the operation of the herbe. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 15 It is very necessarie for them sometimes to recreate them selues, so that..they geue not them selues to noughtinesse. |