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ˈwightness Obs. or arch.
[f. wight a. + -ness.]
The quality of being ‘wight’; valour, courage, bravery; strength, might, force, vigour, energy; activity, agility, alacrity.
13..K. Alis. 5495 (Laud MS.), Wiþ suerd & shelde in batayle To proue his wiȝtnesse. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 240 He wissed hem wynne it aȝeyne þorw wightnesse of handes. 1393Ibid. C. xii. 284 That noþer wit ne wyghtnesse wan neuere þe maistrie With-oute þe grete gyfte of god. c1440York Myst. x. 58 Now..fra me is all wightnes wente. 1483Cath. Angl. 417/2 Wightnesse, alacritas,..celeritas factorum, velocitas pedum est & corporum. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 105 Gretlie thay take plesure in the wichtnes of thair bodie. Ibid. 334 His strang defence of the Clergie of Scotland, and his wichtnes contrare the aduersar. 1742R. Forbes Ajax's Sp. (1755) 8 Gin my wightness doubted war, I wat my gentle bleed..Right sickerly does plead. |