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Wiliness. World English Historical Dictionary

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Wiliness. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wiliness Forms: see WILY. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or character of being wily; craftiness, cunning, guile.

1 c. 1450.  trans. De Imitatione, I. vii. 8. Truste not in þin ovne konnyng, ner in þe wilynes of eny man livyng.

2 c. 1460.  Metham, Wks. (1916), 133. A mowght þe qwyche ys smal off qwantyte with thynne lyppys sygnyffyith onmyghtynes, ferffulnes, and wylynes.

3 1556.  Olde, Antichrist, 162 b. So (with certain foxlike wylynesse) they clooke the bloody meanyng.

4 1601.  R. Johnson, Kingd. & Commw. (1603), 2. Neither let any man suppose that from wilines without force, nor force without iudgement, can preceed any proiect of worthy consideration.

5 1698.  Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 181. To defend them from all Assaults and Wiliness of the Devil.

6 1818.  Mrs. Shelley, Frankenstein, xix. (1823), II. 126. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.

7 1878.  Bayne, Purit. Rev., iii. 81. He had the wariness and wiliness of the cat.

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