† torpelness Obs. rare—1.
[app. f. prec. + -ness.]
? State of turmoil.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 322 Ure Louerd sulf seid to his deciples..‘Go we eft..into Iudee’. Judee speleð schrift... Galilee speleð hweol, uorte to leren us þet we of þe worldes torpelnesse, & of sunne [= sin's] hweol, ofte gon to schrifte. |