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garishness|ˈgɛərɪʃnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. Excessive display or brilliancy in dress, colour, etc.
1598J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 156 Marshalling your bodies pride, thereby to attract more gazers on your garishnesse. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 257 The Garishness of whores and the pranking up themselves to allure. 1814W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 213 Time, and smoke..will eventually sift a vaporous powder over the picture, and then subdue its garishness of hue.
fig.1813Coleridge Remorse i. ii, There are woes Ill bartered for the garishness of joy! 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 396 Bolingbroke, whose fine manners and polished gaiety give us a keen sense of the grievous garishness of Macaulay.
†2. Want of self-restraint, flightiness. Obs.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Ad §12. 57 Lest the lavishnesse of his spirit should transport him to intemperance..to vanity, and garishnesse. 1651― Serm. for Year i. xii. 154 By a prosperous accident [we] are melted into joy and garishnesse, and drawn off from the sobriety of recollection. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. iii. 13 And, possibly, gray hairs may have nothing under them but garishness and folly many years old. a1716South Serm. (1744) IX. v. 157 That pride and garishness of temper, that renders it impatient of the sobrieties of virtue. |