Sickerness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance. obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    security; safety; freedom from danger. archaic, uncountable

    "Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore, / From her dull horse, in desperate distresse, / And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse."

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"Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore, / From her dull horse, in desperate distresse, / And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse."

Etymology

From Middle English sikirnes, sikernesse, Old English sicornes (“certainty; secureness”), equivalent to sicker (“secure”) + -ness.

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