loselryn.
/ˈləʊzəlri/ archaic.
Performance characteristic of a losel; profligacy, debauchery, rascality.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun]
truandise?c1225
lorelshipc1380
truantry1426
coquineryc1430
loselry1480
loonery?a1513
palliardrya1522
truanting1532
patchingc1535
foul play1546
patchery?1553
slavery1553
palliardy1568
smaikry1573
roguishness1579
rascality1582
roguery1594
scutchery1594
ropery1599
cullionry1611
scoundrelism1611
friponnerie1708
rascalism1837
scoundreldom1837
rascaldom1851
scoundrelship1856
rascalry1868
scallywaggery1897
scallywagism1897
scallywagging1915
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun]
truandise?c1225
lorelshipc1380
truantry1426
coquineryc1430
loselry1480
loonery?a1513
palliardrya1522
truanting1532
patchingc1535
patchery?1553
palliardy1568
roguishness1579
rascality1582
roguery1594
scutchery1594
ropery1599
scoundrelism1611
roguinga1625
friponnerie1708
rascalism1837
scoundreldom1837
scamphood1845
rascaldom1851
scoundrelship1856
rascalry1868
scallywaggery1897
scallywagism1897
scallywagging1915
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. cxcviii. 178 The false spencers, the whiche he mayntened thurgh loselrye ageynst his honour.
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 661 By sorsery Or suche other loselry.
1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 13 To haue him Lord it out thus vnder my nose, and I to sweate and swinke, to maintaine his lozelrie.
1894 F. S. Ellis Reynard the Fox 215 Surely my first thought was that she Had been judged for some loselry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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