- is an archaic or literary word for lazy or for a lazy or loutish person. You’ve got to keep cracking the whip because Let alane maks mony lurdanes. (Alfred Henderson’s Proverbs 1832). Sloth was the sin which brought about the downfall of the Roman Empire, if John Learmont (1791) is to be believed: Lurdane sloth O’ercoups them [Romans] a’mang savage swarms O’ Hun an’ Goth.
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