gaddishness
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[edit]gaddishness (uncountable)
- (nonce word) Quality of being gaddish.
- 1693-1694, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter
- Elders, be such in grave and pious carriage, whatsoever be your years; for young men may be so, and, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but gaddishness and folly many years old, habituated and inveterate ungodliness!
- 1693-1694, Robert Leighton, A Practical Commentary on the First Epistle of St. Peter