[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Malice, spite; ill-humor; crabbed temper.
1538. Sir T. Wriothesly, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., II. II. 109. Thinking … with his clemencye to conquerre their cancerdnes.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par., Pref. to Luke, 3 a. With malicious cancardnesse.
1660. Hacket, Serm. Whitehall, 22 March, 8. The cankardness of two men cost them fourty years bondage more.
