sowrenesse, <span class="searchmatch">sournesse</span>, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour + -ness. sourness (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">sournesses</span>) The condition...
(nominative plural sūrnessa) sourness Strong ō-stem: Middle English: <span class="searchmatch">sournesse</span>, sowrenesse English: sourness Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898)...