Obs. [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Choleric state or quality; passionateness, irascibility, anger, peevishness.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 21. He compareth his choleriknesse to Leven.
1626. W. Sclater, Expos. 2 Thess. (1629), 295. Through pride of heart, and choleriquenes.
1747. Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 779. The cholerickness of his nature.
