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sickerness

sickerness noun: the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance.

Noun

sickerness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance.
  2. (archaic) security; safety; freedom from danger.
    • Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore, / From her dull horse, in desperate distresse, / And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Comprehending the world casual and transitory, Who list to consider shall never be beguiled, If it be regist'red well in memory; A plain example of worldly vainglory: How in this world there is no sickerness, But fallible flattery enmixed with bitterness.1980, John Skelton, Paula Neuss, Magnificence - Page 215

Origin of sickerness

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

Questions about sickerness

What does sickerness mean?
Sickerness means the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance.
What part of speech is sickerness?
Sickerness is a noun.

Words near sickerness in the dictionary

  1. sickens
  2. sicker
  3. sickered
  4. sickering
  5. sickerly
  6. sickerness
  7. sickers
  8. Sickert
  9. Sickertian
  10. sickest
  11. sickfic

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