Citations:scatheness

English citations of scatheness

"scathness"

• 1832, The Olio: Or, Museum of Entertainment‎^[1], volume 8, page 124:

  Honest and industrious men grew rich and waxed warm in the charities of human nature; they spread their hospitalities far, and built alms-houses, in pity of those of their fellow bursers whom misfortune had sealed by the impress of poverty, and scathness driven them into the obscure retreats of humiliating woe.