idlesse

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪdləs/

idlesse (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) idleness
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 378:

     All which my daies I haue not lewdly spent,
     Nor spilt the blossome of my tender yeares
     In ydlesse.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 143:

     A maiden was seated apart from her companion, the very flowers scattered neglected by her side; but it was obvious that idlesse—that first sweet symptom of love—was pleasanter than her graceful task; for the colour was rich upon her cheek, and the smile parted her scarce conscious lips.

   • 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Earth and her Praisers” in The Seraphim, and Other Poems, London: Saunders & Otley, p. 242,

     Next a lover, with a dream

     ’Neath his waking eyelids hidden;

     And a frequent sigh unbidden'

     And an idlesse all the day

     Beside a wandering stream;

• idlesse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Selside, dieless, diesels, sediles, seidels