nimbless

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noun

Nimbleness.

First used 16th–17th c.Scrabble 12
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Meanings

nounnimbless (countable and uncountable, plural nimblesses)

plural nimblesses

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableNimbleness.First known use 16th–17th c.

    He could his weapon shift from side to syde, / From hand to hand, and with such nimblesse sly

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    Seemed those little Angels did uphold / The cloth of state, and on their purpled wings / Did beare the pendants, through their nimblesse bold […].

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

    There is another sort of savage beast in those parts called by some of our people Jan over Zee (Jack beyond sea) wich surpasses all others in nimblesses and tears all to pieces it meets with.

    1977, Os brasileiros, page 43
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