Obs. [f. STEEPY a. + -NESS.] The condition of being ‘steepy’; steepness.
Freely used by writers in the 17th c.
1612. [W. Biddulph], Trav. four English Men, 90. The mountaine … somewhat steepy…: we rode so farre as we could for steepinesse and then tooke vpon vs to clamber vp on foote.
1642. Howell, For. Trav. (Arb.), 51. The cragginesse and steepinesse of places up and down is a great advantage to the dwellers.
1771. Goldsm., Hist. Eng., IV. 398. The steepiness of the ground such as hardly to be surmounted.
