
ETYMOLOGY
from busy + -ty;
after words from French and Latin like veri-ty, jolli-ty
EXAMPLE
“…where with the sely people are so sore vexed. Of the cometh the besyte and wantonnes of officials. O couetousnes mother of all iniquitie…”
From: The Sermo[n] of Doctor Colete, made to the Conuocacion at Paulis, 1530