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mickleness Obs. exc. dial.|ˈmɪk(ə)lnɪs|
Forms: see mickle a.
[f. mickle a. + -ness.]
Greatness, ‘bigness’ (in any sense); largeness; size.
αa1300E.E. Psalter xxviii. 4 Steuen ofe lauerd in mikelnes [v.r. micelnisse, Vulg. magnificentia]. Ibid. l. 2 And after of þi reuthes þe mikelnes Þou do awai mi wickednes. a1325Prose Psalter v. 7 Ich am, Lord, in þe miclenes of þy mercy. 1382Wyclif Baruch ii. 18 The soule that is sori vp on the mykilnesse of euel,..ȝyueth to thee glorie. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvii. 79 Men fyndez dyamaundes..of þe mykilnes of hesill nuttes. 14..MS. Lincoln A. i. 17, lf. 28 (Halliw.) A grete multitude of swyne, that ware alle of a wonderfulle mekilnesse. 1868Atkinson Cleveld. Gloss., Micklish, pretty large; of something in which the quality of ‘mickleness’ exists.
βc1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 135 Þe childes michelnesse shende þe engel on fuwer þingen. a1325Prose Psalter l[i]. 2 And efter þe mychelnes of þy pites do way my wickednes. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 19 In mychilnes of þi glorie þou didist doun alle myn adversaries. 1388― Gen. xxxii. 12 The grauel of the see, that mai not be noumbrid for mychilnesse. ― Exod. ix. 24 It was of so greet mychelnes..sith that folk was maad. |