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sottishness|ˈsɒtɪʃnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
†1. Foolishness, folly, stupidity. Obs.
Very common in the 17th century.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iv. 74 When as a sudden sottishnesse or follie had surprizd And caught th' unwary louer fast. 1604T. Wright Passions iv. i. 108 Silence may proceed sometimes of sottishnesse, because a man knowes not how to reason. 1653Holcroft Procopius, Goth. Wars i. 27 He laughed at their sottishnesse, in hoping to bring their Oxen to their Enemies walls so unadvisedly. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xxiii, The idle conceit of the Fish Remora, which mens sottishness hath made a vulgar one. a1758J. Edwards in Spurgeon Treas. David IV. 301 The sottishness of their being insensible of God's all⁓seeing eye.
2. Condition or conduct typical of a sot: esp. indulgence in drinking to excess.
1648G. Daniel Eclog iii. 315 In time depart [thou] From the bewitching Sottishnes of Sin. 1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 161 They naturally sink themselves into an unspeakable Sottishness. 1706Stanhope Paraphr. III. 222 The Sottishness of a debauched Understanding. 1785Paley Mor. Philos. iv. ii. (1841) 180 That solitary sottishness which waits neither for company nor invitation. 1855Maurice Learning & Working 322, I cannot conceive how a people, fallen..into feebleness, strife and sottishness, could have escaped the severest punishments. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 29 The stupid sottishness of the confirmed voluptuary. |