[f. LIMP a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being limp.

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1731.  In Bailey, vol. II.

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1873.  Black, Pr. Thule, xv. 241. Gentle and obedient, not through any timidity or limpness of character.

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1877.  D. M. Wallace, Russia, xxxii. 545. The moral laxity and limpness which may be remarked in the lower classes of Russia.

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