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slæcness

  • noun [ feminine ]
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slæcness, e; f.
Sloth, inertness, laziness
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  • Slecnes accidia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 5, 73 : 97, 5- Scleacnes

    pigredo,

      Kent. Gl. 694.
slowness of physical movement
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  • Swá swá ðære sunnan sleacnys ácenþ ǽnne dæg and áne niht . . . swá eác ðæs mónan swiftnys áwyrpþ út ǽnne dæg and áne niht,

      Lchdm. iii. 264, 19.
slowness in action
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  • Ðæs þeówes sleacnys (

    he seemed long in doing his errand),

      Shrn. 43, 15.
  • Wæs beboden ðæt hi sceoldon caflíce etan, forðan ðe God onscunaþ ða sleacnysse on his þegnum. Homl. Th. ii. 282, 3.
mental inertness
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  • wolde ic ðæt ða æðela [n] clericas ásceócon fram heora andgites orþance alce sieacnysse, Anglia viii. 301, 4.
remissness, slowness in performance of duty
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  • Oft eác sió gódnes ðære monþwǽrnesse biþ diégellíce gemenged wið sleacnesse . . . Wé sculon manian ða manþwǽran ðæt hié fleón ðæt ðǽr suíðe neáh liegeþ ðære monnþwǽrnesse, ðæt is sleacnes,

      Past. 40; Swt. 289, 18-22.
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  • slæcness, n.