ˈstalworthness Obs.
[f. stalworth a. + -ness.]
The quality of being ‘stalworth’.
| a 1340 Hampole Ps. xvii. 40 Ay waxand in stalworthnes. 1382 Wyclif Jer. xvi. 19 Lord, my strength and my stalwrthenesse. c 1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. (1896) 52 Geraud & Alexander..throgh kynd stalwardnesse hertly smytten out to the formest, & many dydden to deth. |