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单词 primness
释义 ˈprimness
[f. prim a. + -ness.]
The quality of being prim; formal or affected preciseness.
1713Steele Guard. No. 29 ⁋11 Her lips are composed with a primness peculiar to her character.1758Gray Let. Poems (1775) 265 Primness and affectation of style..has turned to hoydening and rude familiarity.1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. II. 98 A primness of eternal virginity about the mouth.1894Doyle Mem. S. Holmes 99 He affected a certain quiet primness of dress.
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