sluggardie
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Middle English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]sluggardie
- the state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- Withoute Slep of sluggardie
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- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Seconde Nonnes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Ydelnesse is roten slogardye.
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Further reading
[edit]- “sluggardy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.