awkness

wrongness (awkwardness, sinfulness, or ineptitude).

Noun

  1. wrongness (awkwardness, sinfulness, or ineptitude).
    • […]but the ſkilfull can woꝛke much vpon little, and by his cunning ouercome the awkneſſe of his ſtuffe: - 1592, Phillip of Mornay, chapter XXXII, in Phillip Sidney Knight, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning...
    • So much flesh as is left in a saint, so much awkness and unwillingness to come to God's foot[…] - 1655, William Gurnall, “The Saint Must Be Always Ready for Trials”, in The Christian in Complete Armour […] , volume I,...
    • The Great Enemies of all Good, Fleſh, Satan, and World, do of all other things, moſt oppose Meditation which ſhowes that there is much Good in it. Fleſh, by Awkness, Giddiness; World, by Diſtractions[…] - 1664, Cotton...

Origin

From awk + -ness.