suddenty

English

Etymology

From Middle English sodeynte, from Old French sodaineté (Modern French soudaineté).

Noun

suddenty (plural suddenties)

1. (Scotland) suddenness; a sudden
   • 1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     My father's tongue was loosed of a suddenty, and he said aloud , “ I refer mysell to God's pleasure , and not to yours . ”

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suddenty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)