Gaddishness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Quality of being gaddish. nonce-word, uncountable
"1693-1694, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter Elders, be such in grave and pious carriage, whatsoever be your years; for young men may be so, and, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but gaddishness and folly many years old, habituated and inveterate ungodliness!"
Example
More examples"1693-1694, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter Elders, be such in grave and pious carriage, whatsoever be your years; for young men may be so, and, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but gaddishness and folly many years old, habituated and inveterate ungodliness!"
Etymology
From gaddish + -ness.
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