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good nature, good-ˈnature
1. Pleasant or kindly disposition; chiefly denoting a readiness (often excessive) to comply with the wishes or importunities of others, or to permit encroachment on one's rights.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 149 The scripture praisithe this good lady for her curtesye & good nature. 1567Harman Caveat 42 A pore neighbour of mine, who for honesty and good natur surmounteth many. 1614T. Adams Gallants' Burden Ded., In the affiance of your good natures..I haue presumed to make you the patron of my Labours. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. (1684) 35 Good nature..a thing so peculiar to the English Nation..that it cannot well be..practised by another people. a1717Bp. O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. 194, I never do drink to excess but only..when I am hard put upon by the Company..and I hope my Easiness and Good⁓nature..will not be imputed to me as a Fault. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 53 He had that kind of good⁓nature, which absence of mind, indolence of body, and carelesness of fortune produce. 1827Lytton Pelham ii, I have seen him endure with a careless good-nature the most provoking affronts. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. v. xciv. 322 The national easy-goingness and good-nature.
†2. In moral sense: Natural goodness of character; virtue. Obs. rare.
1627Sanderson Serm., Ad Pop. vi (1664) 351 We may talk..of good natured men..But..set grace aside..there is no more good nature in any man than there was in Cain and in Judas. 1657Jer. Taylor Serm. at Funeral Sir G. Dalstone Wks. 1828 VI. 563 A good nature, being the relicks and remains of that shipwreck which Adam made, is the proper and immediate disposition to holiness..When good nature is heightened by the grace of God, that which was natural becomes now spiritual. a1677Barrow Wks. (1686) II. 199 [Virtue in Pagans] is to be imputed to..the reliques of good nature, to the glimmerings of natural light..or, [etc.]. |