stagnancyn.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (cx. 7 Annot.) 566/1 The stagnancy or standing still of these waters.

1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 410 The bloud should be preserved from Stagnancy.

1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice III. i. 31 We would not wantonly..stay the mountain winds into pestilential stagnancy.

1873 J. Morley Rousseau I. vii. 263 Suddenly heated stagnancies of the blood.

1885 J. Payn Luck of Darrells II. xxiv. 161 The sleepy moat, preserved from stagnancy by a thread of running stream.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. v. 256 When the long-enthralled soul, from amid its chains and squalid stagnancy, arises.

1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. ii. 19 It stirs the stagnancy of our existence.

1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 6 That unseen world appeared..as a realm of law; a region not of mere emotional vagueness or stagnancy of adoration, but of definite progress.

1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 55 For, though the Country People are so wise To call these Rivers, they'r but Stagnancies, Left by the flood.

1699 L. Wafer New Voy. & Descr. Isthmus Amer. 72 The Stagnancies and Declivities of the Ground, and the very droppings of the Trees, in the wet Season, afford Water enough.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Let. to Mrs. Gillman in Lett. (1895) 692 The number of unnecessary fish ponds and other stagnancies immediately around the house.

a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 147 Those sad currents and sad stagnancies of thought.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience 267 As if our tears broke through an inveterate inner dam, and let all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral stagnancies drain away.