sluggardie

Middle English

Alternative forms

• slogardye

Noun

sluggardie

1. the state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Withoute Slep of sluggardie

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   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Seconde Nonnes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Ydelnesse is roten slogardye.

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Further reading

• “sluggardy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.