lickerousness

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Etymology

From Middle English likerousnesse, equivalent to lickerous +‎ -ness. Compare lecherousness.

Noun

lickerousness (uncountable)

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being lickerous.
    1. Fondness for good fare; keen appetite or gluttonous desire.
    2. Palate; daintiness of taste.
      • 1503, Shepherd's Kalander:
        Thin lips signifieth likerousness and leasing.
    3. Longing; craving; greed.
      • 1655, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney, page 450:
        Here I say will bee seen, whether either fear can make you short, or the likerousness of dominion make you beyond Juftice .
    4. Lasciviousness.
      • 2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers: The Adventures of the First Lollards, page 121:
        'Surely the judgment of God is upon the nation, yea upon the Church also, for many a monk did perish in the Black Plague....and suffer Hell's torment for their sloth, lickerousness, covertise and idolatory. And so perish all that heed not the Gospel of Christ!'
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