sickerness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance. obsolete,uncountable
  2. security; safety; freedom from danger. archaic,uncountable
    — Lightly she leaped, as a wight forlore, / From her dull horse, in desperate distresse, / And to her feet betooke her doubtfull sickernesse.

词源

From Middle English sikirnes, sikernesse, Old English sicornes (“certainty; secureness”), equivalent to sicker (“secure”) + -ness.
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