[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Cringing quality, timid servility.
1695. Whether Preserv. Protest. Relig. Motive of Revol., 22. With a flattering as well as a mean Cringingness.
1821. Blackw. Mag., IX. 508. There is … less of plebeian cringingness and adulation in his works.
