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sikerness

sikerness is the alternative spelling of sickerness.

Meaning of sickerness

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

Questions about sikerness

What is sikerness the alternative spelling of?
Sikerness is the alternative spelling of sickerness.

Words near sikerness in the dictionary

  1. Sikeliot
  2. Sikeliots
  3. Siken
  4. Sikens
  5. siker
  6. sikerness
  7. sikes
  8. Sikh
  9. Sikh Empire
  10. sikhara
  11. sikharas

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