Gaddishness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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!"

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"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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