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naughtiness|ˈnɔːtɪnɪs|
[f. naughty a.]
1.
†a. Wickedness, viciousness, depravity. Obs.
1541Wyatt Def. Wks. (1861) p. xxxiv, That made me not hold my peace, when I might..improve his naughtiness. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 152 Neither haue we a short life by Nature, but we make it shorter by naughtynesse. 1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. 119 'Tis..dangerous to act any naughtinesse before children. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative 11 He was..forced to acknowledge that it was the naughtiness of his own heart, that put him upon that Rebellion.
b. Waywardness, disobedience.
1740–1Richardson Pamela (1742) 456 There was a sad End of all the Four ungracious Children,..and God punished their Naughtiness. 1833Mem. Departed Friend 55 Not to fret over every little childish fit of naughtiness she has. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. II. iv. 90 What would Miss Pinnock say, if she confessed her naughtiness to her?
c. A naughty act or trait.
1882W. Ballantine Exper. xiv. I. 174 Homburg... Its beauties and its naughtinesses have been often described.
†2. The state or condition of being bad, faulty, or defective in some respect. Obs.
1550Harvel in Froude Hist. Eng. (1881) IV. 511 [Huge bales of English goods were lying unsold upon the wharves] through the naughtiness of the making. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastel 740 But to aunswere the naughtinesse of the argument, I say [etc.]. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xxxiv. 500 Many times..the fruit is spoiled and lost, by the naughtines of the ground. 1658A. Fox Würtz' Surg. iii. iii. 225 A Wound that looks well,..yet the Patient..groweth weaker, it intimates the naughtiness of the medicine. 1709–29V. Mandey Syst. Math. Statics 756 To find out the naughtiness of deceitful Beams. |
