[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being knavish; knavery; petty villainy, dishonesty, trickery.
1515. Barclay, Egloges, III. (1570), C ij b/2. If thou haue one with knauishenes infect, Then all the other shall folowe the same secte.
1783. Ainsworth’s Lat. Dict., Knavishness, nequitia, scelus.
