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rottenness|ˈrɒt(ə)nnɪs|
Forms: 4–5 roten(n)esse; 5 rotynes(se; 6 rottennes, rottinnes, rottynnesse, 6–7 rotten(n)esse, 7, 9 rotteness; 7– rottenness.
[f. rotten a. + -ness.]
1. The state of being rotten or decayed; unsoundness, corruptness; also concr., decayed or putrid matter.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xix. 3 Rotennesse and wormes shuln eritagen hym. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 82 Þat þe rotynes & þe quytture myȝte þe bettere goon out. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 299 b/1 He clensyd hym from al rotynes. 1530Palsgr. 264/1 Rottynnesse of any thynge, pourriture. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love Ep. Ded. *iij b, Their blossomes are as dust and their fruite as rottennesse. 1631Widdowes Nat. Philos. 37 Distilled water of Oke leaves cureth Fluxes, and rottennesse of the Liver. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ i. i. §9 For the sake of the apparent rottenness of the Superstructures to question the soundness of the foundations. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nature ix. 181 The vitious life..usually ends ill; perhaps in rottenness and rags. 1781Cowper Expost. 90 He found, conceal'd beneath a fair outside, The filth of rottenness. 1813Shelley Q. Mab v. 8 Loading with loathsome rottenness the land. 1884Law Times LXXVII. 384/2 The scaffolding..gave way, owing to the rottenness of a putlog.
fig.1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xxiii. 174 b, He alone of all men was not corrupt with any rottennesse of vice or of inordinate desires. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Church Porch iii, Continence hath his joy: weigh both; and so, If rottennesse have more, let Heaven go. 1859Kingsley Misc. II. 45 Mr. Froude shows..his deep sense of the rottenness of the Church. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 331 It was Rome at the epoch of her most gorgeous gluttonies and her most gilded rottenness.
†2. Ripeness (of an impostume). Obs.—1
1607Markham Horsemanship vii. 57 If by no meanes it will come to any head or rottennes, then you shall ouer night apply round about the wenne Bole-armonike and vineger mixt together.
3. The condition of sheep affected by rot.
1704Dict. Rust. s.v. Sheep, It stirs up the natural Heat of the Sheep, that wasts the moisture, and prevents Rottenness. 1789T. Wright Meth. Watering Meadows (1790) 41 In six weeks afterwards the lambs were killed, and discovered strong symptoms of rottenness. 1867Brande & Cox Dict. Sci., etc. s.v. Rot, The signs of rottenness are sufficiently familiar to persons about sheep. |