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latesome, a. (and adv.) Obs. exc. dial.|ˈleɪtsəm|
Also 4 latsom, -sum.
[OE. lætsum, f. læt late a.1 + -some.]
Backward; slow, sluggish; late.
11..O.E. Chron. an. 1089 (Laud MS.) Wæs swiðe lætsum ᵹear on corne. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 793 He es swyft to spek..And latsom and slaw for to here. 1382Wyclif Exod. iv. 10 Y am of more latsum and of more slow tongue. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 1142 And broght hym preciouse giftes and latsomest to fynd. 1469Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 21 Whether is so latesum in this cuntrey, that men can neither well gett corne nor hay. 1847Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) (1890) II. 200 We've dandered baith latesome and early. 1877–89in N.W. Linc. Gloss.
Hence † ˈlatesomeness.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxiii. 3 Wha is sett here for latsumnes. 1357Lay Folks Catech. 528 Of this syn [slauthe] comes..latsumnesse or lite to draw opon lenthe Any gode dede that we sal do. |