| 释义 |
wiseness rare.|ˈwaɪznɪs|
[f. wise a. + -ness. Cf. OE. unwísnes.]
The quality of being wise; wisdom; occas. ironical.
c1320Cast. Love 292 To vchone sunderlyng He ȝaf a dole of..his wysnesse. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. vi. (Skeat) l. 119 For his goodnesse and wysnesse wolt thou nat do him worship? 1579E. K. Ded. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal. §1 His morall wisenesse. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 286 Yet haue I something in me dangerous, Which let thy wisenesse feare. 1634Massinger Very Woman iii. ii, Your wives wonderful wiseness. 1796F. Burney Camilla vii. viii, Which is a wiseness that does honour to her education. 1820Coleridge in Blackw. Mag. Sept. 629 This chilly, doubting, qualifying wiseness. 1907Sat. Rev. 8 June 702/2 This report..is full of touches that illustrate his wiseness.
¶ right wiseness, erron. division of rightwiseness, righteousness.
1447Shillingford Lett. (Camden) 134 Of your grete right wisnesse and speciall grace. 1493Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 49 Come to this byleve by doynge of werkes of ryght wysenes. 15..New Notbroune Mayd 172 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 8 By ryght wysenes. 1638Dial. on Laws of Eng. i. xv. 26 b, Truth in his word, & right wisenes in his deed. |