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dastardliness|ˈdɑːstədlɪnɪs, -æ-|
[f. dastardly a. + -ness.]
The quality of being dastardly.
†1. Inertness or dullness of wit; stupidity. Obs.
1553N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices i. (1558) 45 That our appetites obaye reason: and neyther runne before it, nether for slouth or dastardlinesse dragge behind it. 1557Recorde Whetst. Y iij, But for euery mater to require aied..it might seme mere dastardlinesse.
2. Mean or base cowardliness.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. C iv b, Dastardlines or any other reproche. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 14 Alas, our dasterdlines, and timiditie, that faint before daies of triall. 1684Manton Exp. Lord's Pr. Wks. 1870 I. 223 Observe Peter's dastardliness..a question of the damsel's overturns him. 1807F. Wrangham Serm. Transl Script. 10 Their proverbial dastardliness of character. |