suddenty

From Middle English sodeynte, from Old French sodaineté (Modern French soudaineté).

suddenty (plural suddenties)

1. (archaic) suddenness; a sudden
   • 1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     My father's tongue was loosed of a suddenty, and he said aloud , “ I refer mysell to God's pleasure , and not to yours . ”

• “suddenty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.