• Sickerness

    Origin

    From sicker + -ness.

    Full definition of sickerness

    Noun

    sickerness

    (plural sickernesses)
    1. (obsolete) Certainty, assurance.
    2. (obsolete) Security, safety, freedom from danger.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore,
        From her dull horse, in desperate distresse,
        And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse.
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