mickleness

The story

1. Old English · inherited frommiċelnes“greatness, size, mass, quantity, multitude, abundance, magnificence, great deed”
2. Middle English · inherited frommikelnes
3. English todaymickleness

From Middle English mikelnes, an unpalatalised variant (due to influence from Old Norse mikill) of Middle English michelnesse, from Old English miċelnes (“greatness, size, mass, quantity, multitude, abundance, magnificence, great deed”), equivalent to mickle + -ness. Cognate with Old High German michilnessi (“greatness, magnitude”). See also muchness.

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