What does awkness mean?
Awkness means (obsolete, rare) wrongness (awkwardness, sinfulness, or ineptitude)..
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/ˈɔːknəs/ · noun
(obsolete, rare) wrongness (awkwardness, sinfulness, or ineptitude)..
[…]but the ſkilfull can woꝛke much vpon little, and by his cunning ouercome the awkneſſe of his ſtuffe:
So much flesh as is left in a saint, so much awkness and unwillingness to come to God's foot[…]
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[…]
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Awkness means (obsolete, rare) wrongness (awkwardness, sinfulness, or ineptitude)..
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[…]but the ſkilfull can woꝛke much vpon little, and by his cunning ouercome the awkneſſe of his ſtuffe:
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