[f. FALLOW a. + -NESS.] The condition of being fallow; idleness.
a. 1631. Donne, To Mr. R. Woodward, Poems (1633), 74.
| Like one, who ’in her third wydowhood doth profes | |
| Her self a nun, tyde to retiredness | |
| So ’affects my Muse now a chast fallownes. |
1855. Singleton, Virgil, II. 114.
| To travel through these shades, through regions rife | |
| In thorns by fallowness, and night’s abyss. |
