† ignavyn.
Obsolete.
Sluggishness, slowness, sloth.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun]
slacknessc1000
hoolinessa1340
latesomeness1357
slothc1380
lateshipc1390
slownessa1398
lateliness?c1400
sluggednessc1425
slugginessc1450
sluggishnessc1450
tardityc1450
lenta1500
ignavy1543
retardance1550
lingering1570
tardiness1608
lentitude1623
languidness1634
tediousness1691
lentora1763
slow-coaching1837
snailishness1905
the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [noun] > tardiness or sluggishness
hoolinessa1340
latesomeness1357
slothc1380
lateshipc1390
lateliness?c1400
sluggednessc1425
slugginessc1450
sluggishnessc1450
tardityc1450
ignavy1543
tardiness1608
lentitude1623
languidness1634
tediousness1691
lentora1763
tarditude1794
laggardness1869
1543 G. Joye George Ioye confuteth Winchesters Articles a iv b Our own sluggishnes negligence and ignauye is the cause therof.
1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xii.) f. 234 What ignauy and sleugth is ther to any godly reformacion?
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. N4 The violence..may be obtunded, or its ignavy excited.
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 22 Nations, sunk in blind ignavia, demand a universal-suffrage Parliament to heal their wretchedness.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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- carcinoid
- carcinoid syndrome
- carcinoids
- carcinological
- carcinologist
- carcinologists
- carcinology
- carcinoma
- carcinoma in situ
- carcinomas
- carcinomata
- carcinomatose
- carcinomatoses
- carcinomatosis
- carcinomatous
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- card
- card a rest
- card and blowing-room hand, operative, machinery
- card and blowingroom hand, operative, machinery
- card and compass
- card away
- card basket
- card board