leannessn.
/ˈliːnnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈlin(n)ᵻs/ The condition or quality of being lean; thinness; meagreness; poverty (of land); barrenness; etc.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > state of having
leannessa1000
boninessa1398
macilence?a1425
meagreness?a1425
macies?a1450
meagrec1450
povertya1475
bareness1552
extenuation1576
poorness1577
gauntness1607
lankness1611
macilencya1631
spareness1648
emaceration1656
emaciation1662
skinniness1688
angularity1822
thinness1827
pinchedness1857
scrawniness1863
scragginess1865
wizenedness1887
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > lean meat
leanc1450
leanness1542
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun]
waedlec888
wanspeedc893
wanea1100
wandrethc1175
miseasea1200
povertya1225
lowness?c1225
needc1225
orcostc1225
poorness?a1300
unwealtha1300
defaultc1300
porailc1325
straitnessa1340
poorhead1340
mischiefa1375
miseasetya1382
needinessa1382
misterc1385
indigencec1386
scarcitya1387
noughtc1400
scantnessc1400
necessity?1406
penurya1425
povertnessa1434
exilitya1439
wantc1450
scarcenessc1475
needinga1500
povertiesa1500
penurity?a1505
poortith?a1513
debility1525
tenuity1535
leanness1550
lack1555
Needham1577
inopy1581
pinching1587
dispurveyance1590
egency1600
macritude1623
penuriousness1630
indigency1631
needihood1648
necessitousness1650
egestuosity1656
straitened circumstancesa1766
unopulence1796
Queer Street1811
lowliness1834
breadlessness1860
unwealthiness1886
out-of-elbowness1890
secondary poverty1901
Short Street1920
the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scantiness or meagreness
scantnessc1386
parcity1509
tenuity1535
scantiness1567
bareness1580
barrenness1587
exiguity1604
leanness1612
meagreness1622
thinness1623
jejuneness1626
macilencya1631
narrowness1647
straitnessa1704
flimsinessa1763
threadbareness1771
poorness1782
skimpiness1879
threadbarity1892
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth > infertility
barrennessa1425
sterility1426
poorness1577
infertility1610
leanness1612
scarceness1678
unproductiveness1777
rammel1795
unproductivity1872
unfertility1888
a1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 192/33 Macie, mid hlænnesse.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 522 Hwæt is þæt man besette his geðanc on nyðerlicum þingum, buton swilce modes hlænnys?
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xxiv. 23 Ȝe shulen..faile for leenes in ȝoure wickidnessis.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. x. 116 Tomoche lenesse of the forheed and reuelynge of the skynne.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 86 If þat..þe lymes ben mene bitwene fatnes & lenenes.
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 115 He þat hauys a mene fface, in chekys and templys, bowynge to Lennesse.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xvii. sig. J.iii The fatnes of flesshe is not so moche nutrytyue as the leenes of flesshe.
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxxvii. sig. Bv Better all be fatte..Than lynger in leannes [1562 leannesse].
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. x. 19/1 A sand..which being spread vpon the face of the earth, bettereth the leannesse thereof for graine.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. i. 109 The poore King Reignier, whose large style Agrees not with the leannesse of his purse. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 147 The women..incline rather to corpulency then leannesse.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. iv. 77 The sacred kine..fit symbols of the leanness or the fertility of the future years.
1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 233 A most unlovely leanness of judgment.
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