lickerousness

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noun

Fondness for good fare; keen appetite or gluttonous desire.

OriginMiddle English likerousnesse →
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Meanings

nounlickerousness (uncountable)
  1. The state, quality, or condition of being lickerous.
    1. uncountableFondness for good fare; keen appetite or gluttonous desire.
    2. uncountablePalate; daintiness of taste.

      Thin lips signifieth likerousness and leasing.

      1503, Shepherd's Kalander
    3. uncountableLonging; craving; greed.

      Here I say will bee seen, whether either fear can make you short, or the likerousness of dominion make you beyond Juftice .

      1655, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney, page 450
    4. uncountableLasciviousness.

      'Surely the judgment of God is upon the nation, yea upon the Church also, for many a monk did perish in the Black Plague....and suffer Hell's torment for their sloth, lickerousness, covertise and idolatory. And so perish all that heed not the Gospel of Christ!'

      2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers: The Adventures of the First Lollards, page 121

Origin

  1. Middle Englishlikerousnesse
  2. Englishlickerousness

From Middle English likerousnesse, equivalent to lickerous + -ness. Compare lecherousness.

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lickerousness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lickerousness

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“lickerousness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lickerousness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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