sluggardie

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Middle English

Alternative forms

slogardye

Noun

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, volume (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, , →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , : [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes , 1542, →OCLC:
  Ydelnesse is roten slogardye.
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Further reading

“sluggardy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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