loosness

Affirming that tho 'Incoherence, may add a neglegence and simple loosness to Pastoral, yet 'tis not such a Negligence or Simplicity as

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

Shaw he would alwaises be running from his work, my loosness returnd held me all night mr Robinson lay here

Robert Carter Diary, 1724 1724

She presently apprehending the loosness of his desires, seemingly condescended;

The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675

She presently apprehending the loosness of his desires, seemingly condescended; so that the business might be so secretly managed, as no occasion of suspition may be probably grounded.

The Gentlewomans Companion [Unknown] 1589

Though I would not have too great a restriction laid on your bodies, yet I would not have them by inconsiderate loosness run out into a deformed corpulency, like the Venetian - Ladies, who seldom, lace themselves, at all, accounting it an excellency in proportion to be round and full-bodied; and that they may attain that (meerly supposed) comeliness if Nature incline them not to be somewhat gross or corpulent, they will use art, by counterfeiting that fulness of body, by the fulness of garments.

The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675