† ˈwarliness Obs. rare—1.
[f. warly a.2 + -ness.]
Warlike disposition, valiantness.
| 1599 Sandys Europæ Spec. (1629) 209 And all to keepe the Father from jealousie of his owne sonne, whose brauenesse of mind and warlinesse [the pirated ed. of 1605 reads war⁓likenesse] is still suspected. |