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Definition of Ricketiness
1. Noun. The quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place.
Generic synonyms: Movability, Movableness
Derivative terms: Rickety, Unsteady
Antonyms: Steadiness
Definition of Ricketiness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being rickety. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ricketiness
Literary usage of Ricketiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... swarming in the frame of the government, and to the ricketiness of the only
foundations in which, on the ground of argument, it had ever found support. ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1832)
"... would be unnecessary here to notice him further; but the ricketiness which he
displayed on his cross-examination may serve to amuse as well as instruct. ..."
3. The Life of Granville George Leveson Gower, Second Earl Granville, K.G by Edmond Fitzmaurice (1905)
"... for the ricketiness of the legislative offspring of the Cabinet, on the ground
that nearly all the members of the Cabinet were closely related to each ..."
4. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1900)
"Even now one shudders at the thought of the ' four-wheeler' of the 'sixties—its
discomfort, its dirt, its dangerous ricketiness, and its unspeakable driver. ..."
5. An Anecdotal History of the British Parliament: From the Earliest Periods to by George Henry Jennings (1892)
"1 i was on this or on some similar occasion that Mr. Bernai Osborne accounted on
physiological principles for the ricketiness of their legislative offspring ..."
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