† brotelnessn.
Obsolete.
Frailty, fickleness; insecurity, uncertainty.
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unstablenessc1340
varyingc1380
uncertaintyc1384
brotelnessc1386
were1390
instabilityc1422
bricklenessa1425
changeability?a1425
changeableness1447
vertibility1447
mutability?a1475
variableness?a1475
inconstance1509
mutationa1542
fickleness1548
variety1548
unconstancy1563
mobility1567
unstability1572
vicissitude1576
variousness1607
inconstancy1613
slipperinessa1618
alterableness1633
versatilousness1640
bottomlessness1642
lability1651
brittlety1652
versatileness1654
fluctuancy1659
fugitivenessa1661
alterability1661
permutability1662
unfixedness1668
mutablenessa1677
flittingnessa1680
frailness1687
flittiness1692
versability1721
plasticity1727
variability1771
unestablishment1776
fluctuabilitya1786
changefulness1791
unsettledness1799
versatility1802
harlequinism1808
fluidity1824
fitfulness1825
sensitiveness1825
insubstantiality1848
contingency1858
rootlessness1859
shiftingness1866
ficklety1888
variancy1888
impredicability1906
proteanism1909
c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 35 On brutil ground thay bulde, and brutelnesse Thay fynde, whan thay wene sikernesse.
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1 The brotilnesse of hir nature.
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xiii. 53 a God..preserue your variaunt brotilnesse.
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