querulousnessn.

1651 J. Reading Guide to Holy City xxxiii. 407 As for the evills of minde, as loquacity, covetousnesse, morosity, querulousnesse,..who knoweth not that these are incident to other ages also?

1652 J. Audley Englands Common-wealth Ded. To answer the querulousnesse of some persons.

1701 M. Astell Serious Proposal to Ladies 68 From the same Original, viz. the constant flattery of external Objects, arises that querulousness and delicacy observable in most Persons of fortune.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 50. ⁋7 The querulousness and indignation which is observed so often [etc.].

1784 T. Percival Moral & Literary Diss. 192 The page of biography is filled with narratives of the querulousness, impaired health and mental imbecility of those who..have informed, enlightened and charmed mankind.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. ii. 23 That impatient querulousness, which betrays its moments of weakness.

1884 Expositor Feb. 87 Querulousness and the captiousness of despair took possession of them.

1928 M. Connolly Mr. Blue v. 96 And it seems that there are natural vices which beset man without any especial spiritual depravity or intervention of the devil: timidity, say, or querulousness.

1955 R. Lindner Fifty-minute Hour 88 Never did any one job last very long..because of his restlessness, his querulousness and his inability to take orders.

2006 Guardian (Nexis) 5 Oct. 20 One can forgive current American art a degree of querulousness, ambivalence and doubt about itself and its place in the world.