† sliddernessn.
Obsolete.
Slipperiness, smoothness. Also figurative.
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slidderness971
slippernessa1000
slipperiness1562
glibness1611
slippiness1821
slideableness1886
971 Blickl. Gl. (Ps. xxxiv. 6) Slidornis, lubricum.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 4 Many men felden doun for slidirnesse of þis weie.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxxviii Ȝif he were slider and smoþe within, by slidernes mete schuld passe oute.
c1400 Comm. Luke i. 15 (Bodl. 43) He is seid a perfit man whiche..feeliþ not þe slidirnesse or leccherie of ȝong wexinge age.
1483 Cath. Angl. 323/1 A Sclidyrnes, labilitas.
a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 305 in Poems (1981) 142 For slydernes scant mycht he hald his fete.
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