fellness

English

Etymology

From fell +‎ -ness.

Noun

fellness (uncountable)

The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe, / And said, Caytiue, cursse on thy cruell hond [...].

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