[f. FLIMSY a. + -NESS.] The quality of being flimsy.

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1717.  in Bailey, vol. II.

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a. 1763.  Shenstone, Ess. Writing & Bks., Wks. (1764), II. 173. There is a certain flimziness of poetry, which seems expedient in a song.

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1816.  Keatinge, Trav. (1817), II. 81. Certainly the materials are spun out almost to flimziness, and it is the most perfect specimen in its way of the lex minimum.

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1883.  Law Times, 29 Sept., 362/1. The courts … were run up with a speed and flimsiness of construction which would do credit to a speculative suburban builder.

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  concr.  1871.  R. Ellis, Catullus, lxviii. 51.

        Nor to the spider, aloft her silk-slight flimsiness hanging,
  Allius aye unswept moulder, a memory dim.

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