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ˈpensifulness, ˈpensefulness Now Sc. and north. dial.
[f. prec. + -ness.]
a. Thoughtfulness, meditation; anxiety, brooding, care, melancholy.
b. Sc. Self-conceit, affected haughtiness.
a1450Fysshynge w. angle (1883) 2 With owt stody pensifulnes or trauel. 1542Boorde Dyetary Pref. (1870) 228 Myrth is one of the chefest thynges of Physycke, the which doth aduertyse euery man..to beware of pencyfulness. 1543Grafton Contn. Harding 461 After dismissed [he] dyed shortely for thought and pensifulnes of mynde. 1825[see pensiness 2]. |