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wryness|ˈraɪnɪs|
Also 6 wrines, 7 -ness(e, wrynesse.
[f. wry a. + -ness.]
1. The fact or condition of being wry or distorted; distortion, twisting.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Tortedad, crookednes, wrines, obliquitas. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 107 The waight of a groate thereof..helpeth the conuulsion and wrynesse of the mouth. 1616Donne Serm. Wks. 1839 V. 463 This is (tortuositas serpentis) the Wryness, the Knottiness, the Entangling of the Serpent. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxxi. 256 A perversive Wriness and Convulsion of the Muscles. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 35 A large Garden would..be less pleasing..if it had..some visible wriness to disfigure it. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. iv. §4 A bitter taste produces wryness and contortion of the mouth. 1857Dickens Dorrit ii. xxvi, The wryness of his face and the uneasiness of his limbs. 1898Meredith Later Alexandrian Poems I. 200 An inspiration caught from dubious hues, Filled him, and mystic wrynesses he chased.
2. fig. Deviation from what is regular or normal; obliquity, wrongness.
1633Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 498 Notwithstanding all this weaknesse, and wrinesse of these instances, the Rej. doth so triumph in them. 1648W. Mountague Devout Ess. i. xii. 143 An exploring the rectitude or wrynesse of their behaviours in this particular. 1906Hardy Dynasts ii. iv. v, The wryness of the times. |