arch. [f. LOSEL + -RY.] Performance characteristic of a losel; profligacy, debauchery, rascality.

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1480.  Caxton, Chron. Eng., cxcviii. 178. The false spencers, the whiche he mayntened thurgh loselrye ageynst his honour.

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1522.  Skelton, Why nat to Courte? 661. By sorsery Or suche other loselry.

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1594.  O. B., Quest. Profit. Concern., 13. To haue him Lord it out thus vnder my nose, and I to sweate and swinke, to maintaine his lozelrie.

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1894.  F. S. Ellis, Reynard the Fox, 215. Surely my first thought was that she Had been judged for some loselry.

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