[f. as prec. + -NESS.] A fawning disposition or demeanour; cringing behaviour, servility.
1673. O. Walker, Educ., ii. 20. It is much easier to bend a naturall mis-inclination to its neighbour virtue, then to its opposite: as … fawningnes to complaisance.
1827. De Quincey, Murder, Wks. IV. 45. I’m for peace, and quietness, and fawningness, and what may be styled knocking-underness.
