foulnessn.

OE Devil's Account of Next World (Tiber.) in Neuphilol. Mitteilungen (1972) 73 366 Þær biþ fulnys butan awendednysse, and biternes butan swetnesse.

OE tr. Felix St. Guthlac (Vesp.) (1909) v. 131 Ða he þa þær geseah þa fulnysse þæs smyces and þa byrnenda lega.

1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. iii. 411 With hardnesse and discolourednesse of lippes, with fowlnesse of the bone.

1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice sig. F5 But Praise and Loue, in Mouth, and Heart of mire (through foulenes of that filth) their grace do lose.

1700 tr. H. M. Herwig Art of Curing Sympathetically 19 It is impossible that this Spirit shall be able to expell the Serum in a Dropsie, or the foulness of the belly in those troubled with the Iliack passion.

1799 Oracle & Daily Advertiser 13 July A most sovereign botanical remedy for all disorders of the lungs, coughs, consumptive and asthmatic complaints, foulness of breath, and fresh-contracted colds.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 271 The..foulness of air in the between-deck..can not be amended.

1910 Western Jrnl. Educ. July 349 The presence of typhoid germs in a stream is not necessarily accompanied by turbidness, offensive odors, or foulness of taste.

2012 L. Adrian Darker after Midnight ii. 11 He drew in a shallow breath and caught a whiff of something even more disturbing beneath the stale foulness of the room.

OE Ælfric Homily (Vitell. C.v) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 578 Ða swyn hi gecuron for heora sweartum hiwe, & for þære fulnesse fenlices adelan.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xli. 21 With þe same leenes & foulnes [L. squalore]: þey dulleden.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fowlenes or fylthines, sorditudo.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 27 Dec. (1976) IX. 402 My wife and I fell out a little about the foulness of the linen of the table.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Fish It is the Foulness of the Ponds..that stenches the Water.

1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 214 With such..eagerness as to neglect the foulness of the road.

1864 J. A. Winslow Let. 7 Apr. in Official Rec. Union & Confederate Navies in War of Rebellion (1896) (1st Ser.) III. 6 It became necessary from the state of machinery and foulness of the bottom of this vessel to make a sheltered port for examination.

1871 Lancet 7 Oct. 522/2 He admitted also that the foulness of the sheets was no fault of the nurses to whom he had given high testimonials.

1926 Pollution Affecting Navigation or Commerce 9 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (69th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. No. 417) The foulness of the waters does not interfere with commercial navigation.

2007 Times 8 Dec. 7/2 You get a green, amber or red rating, depending on the foulness of your air.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. xxxii. 638 He [sc. þe pecok] wondred on þe fairnesse of his feþeres and areriþ hem vp..and þanne he..seeþ þe foulnesse of his feet.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 241 (MED) Considre thin owne foulnesse, howe that þou nakid entredist into the worlde, & with what kynne cloþ þou ert Icladde in þin endyng.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 67 Hees falne in loue with your foulnesse . View more context for this quotation

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 417 The Fury..with new methods try'd The foulness of th' infernal Form to hide.

1891 H. R. Haggard Eric Brighteyes xvi. 160 Then Swanhild knew that her beauty had entered into the foulness of the toad, and the foulness of the toad into her beauty.

2000 S. Scholz Body Narr. v. 122 Tellus and Dipsas here emerge as a kind of Madam World-allegory, the beauty of the young woman being inextricably linked to the foulness of the crone.

1581 T. Wilcox Glasse for Gamesters sig. eiii^v The foulenesse of the weather and the length of the night, cannot alter the nature of the thyng, as of vnlawfull to make it lawfull.

1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience xii. 89 Some Popish people make a superstitious Almanacke of the Sunday, by the fairenesse or foulenesse thereof, guessing of the weather all the weeke after.

1745 J. Bold Sin & Danger neglecting Publick Service of Church (ed. 2) 43 The Badness of the Way, or the Foulness of the Weather, is urg'd by some of these Absenters from the Church, as an Excuse.

1868 Daily News 4 May 5/4 To say it rained heavily would convey no adequate idea of the foulness of the night.

2014 @10tenthsmsp 24 May in twitter.com (accessed 9 Feb. 2021) Practice cancelled due to the foulness of the weather! Lucky there's beer in the fridge.

OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 188) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 276 He..him reste secð on þam receleasum, þe on oferflowednysse and fulnysse lybbað.

lOE tr. Alcuin De Virtutibus et Vitiis (Vesp.) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 95 Gyf we nu wilnieð, þæt ure sawlen syn geclænsode fram synne fulnysse.

a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vii. l. 172 I will not þat þou be offendid in holy scriptureȝ..þoru foulnes of wordeȝ.

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 80 (MED) Goddis lawe is þis, þat prelatis preche to synful men þe foulnesse of here gretee synnys.

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 78 (MED) And ȝif a man with a man, or womman with womman, do trespas ones in siche fowlenes, let the trespasoure haue penaunce of v yere.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 135 Grievous sinnes..for the foulnesse whereof I name them not.

1685 J. Norris Disc. Relig. Assembling in Private Conventicles 267 His pretence was fair enough, but that was no excuse to the foulness of his crime.

1719 E. Young Busiris v. 58 The Foulness of thy Guilt secures Thee From my Reproach.

1817 Caledonian Mercury 1 Sept. The mother sent for him, and upbraided him with the foulness of his conduct.

1848 D. O. Madden Revelations of Ireland iv. 110 He was sure to shock by the foulness of his language.

1899 Daily Mail 1 July 3/4 His lordship, with a solemnity that was most impressive, commented on the foulness of the murder.

1948 Dover Express 15 Oct. 7/3 He realised now the foulness of the crime he had committed.

2012 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 Sept. e7 Subtitles apparently cannot do justice to the sheer foulness of the language.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 537 Other with fayrenes othir with fowlnes I shall brynge hym to thys courte.

1654 H. Hammond Of Fund. in Notion xi. 99 Piety is opposed to..all falsness or foulness of intensions.

1850 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 5 Mar. The force of this argument, the fairness or foulness of the inference drawn, depends altogether on..whether the people have ceased to receive outdoor relief, because they have ceased to need it, or because, needing it as much as ever, they are left to perish for want of it.

1999 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 16 Sept. (Final ed.) c2 What is less clear is if the Onex deal passes the whiff test; the informal measure of fairness or foulness in political matters.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 154 Claudio..loued her so, that speaking of her foulenesse, Washt it with teares. View more context for this quotation

1820 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 26 Aug. 397 The Attorney-General dwells upon such persons leaving the Queen, as he has the foulness to call it; but he never dwells upon such persons joining her.

1895 F. C. Conybeare in Philo of Alexandria About Contemplative Life 325 They deserved to be pilloried, both for their ignorance and their foulness towards him of word and deed.

1984 Country Life 5 July 55/4 Mrs Pat behaved with a fairly constant foulness to her daughter.

2012 K. Carlisle Peril in Paperback xiii. 213 Stephen Fowler, for all his foulness, didn't deserve any of this.

OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) xiv. 270 Wid wedehundes slite, hundes heafod gebærned to acxan & þæron gedon, eall þæt attor & þa fulnysse hyt ut awyrpeð.

lOE Canterbury Psalter: Canticles iii. 8 Suscitans de pulvere egenum et de stercore erigens pauperem : æweæhte ob mille ðone wedlæn & of fulnesse upnimende ðeærfan.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. lii. sig. Liij^v/2 It..clensyth the eyen of fowlenes [a1398 BL Add. hore] & fylthe.

1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 25 Washe well the fowlenesse which is about the jointes of the fingers.

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. xii. 246 The spots or foulnesse of other cloaths are washed out.

1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 2 They had a Foulness about them, viz. Original Sin, that could not be washed away but by Baptism.

1745 J. Swift Clad all in Brown in Misc. X. 228 Thou now one Heap of Foulness art.

1889 R. B. Anderson tr. V. Rydberg Teutonic Mythol. 214 The floors were made of serpents encased in foulness.

1929 M. Summers Vampire in Europe 224 A cloaca in which foulness of this kind collects and reeks amain.

1986 C. Stasheff Her Majesty's Wizard (1987) viii. 105 The soul lay at the bottom, looking upward, contorted in horror, at a huge heap of foulness plunging down toward it.

OE (Northumbrian) Liturgical Texts (Durham Ritual) in A. H. Thompson & U. Lindelöf Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (1927) 105 Ut..uitiorum squalores expurget : þætte..scylda' fulnisso giclænsiga.

OE St. Michael (Corpus Cambr.) in H. L. C. Tristram Vier Altenglische Predigten aus der Heterodoxen Trad. (Ph.D. diss., Freiburg) (1970) 158 Þis is se halga heahengel..se his hlafordes bernas gefelleð mid þy clænestan hwæte and ða egelan and ða fulnesse ut aworpeð.

c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 105 (MED) We mowe be fyned as gold and y-made clene of alle foulenesses.

1624 J. Donne Deuotions xiii. 324 When we hide our spotts, wee become Idolatrers of our owne staines, of our own foulenesses.

1678 tr. M. Charas Royal Pharmacopœa iii. iii. lxvi. 196 You may also put it into a Retort, and having plac'd it in a Sand-bath, draw forth the Mercury pure, forcing it with a gradual fire, and stop the foulnesses in the Retort.

1744 T. Stack in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 424 If a glass Globe filled with Water be rapidly turned on its Axis, one sees little Foulnesses.

1790 G. Walker Serm. Var. Subj. II. xxx. 331 What debasing shame must sink the wretched soul, when foulnesses without number shall be revealed.

1861 F. W. Headland Med. Handbk. i. 56 The only means of keeping the air of houses and streets pure from such foulnesses consists in a perfect system of drainage.

1942 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) 18 Aug. 2/8 Last time I saw that land it was smothered in bracken and other foulnesses.

2001 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 1 Oct. (Sport section) 20 The streets of Cardiff, for instance, are still colonised by suppurating piles of discarded take-away food..and other foulnesses.