Obs. [f. STALWORTH a. + -NESS.] The quality of being ‘stalworth.’
a. 1340. Hampole, Ps. xvii. 40. Ay waxand in stalworthnes.
1382. Wyclif, Jer. xvi. 19. Lord, my strength and my stalwrthenesse.
c. 1425. Eng. Conq. Irel. (1896), 52. Geraud & Alexander … throgh kynd stalwardnesse hertly smytten out to the formest, & many dydden to deth.
