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mawkishness|ˈmɔːkɪʃnɪs|
[-ness.]
†1. The condition of being sick or ‘squeamish’.
1727Bailey vol. II, Mawkishness,..Sickness at the Stomach, Squeamishness.
2. Insipidity or sickliness of flavour.
1727Bailey vol. II, Mawkishness,..a nauseous Taste. 1876Bartholow Mat. Med. (1879) 350 Wines should have a taste free from mawkishness, and indicative of instability. 1887W. Beatty-Kingston Music & Manners II. 308 ‘White beer’, a liquor of paramount mawkishness.
transf.1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. II. 70 Their music was sweet to mawkishness.
3. Sickly sentimentality.
1818Keats Endymion Pref., There is a space of life between [sc. boyhood and manhood] in which the soul is in a ferment,..the ambition thick-sighted; thence proceeds mawkishness. 1824Examiner 595/1 The languid mawkishness of the loungers. 1833–40J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. iv. iv. 406 He is..as removed from softness and mawkishness..as any bishop among them. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers I. 35 note, That mawkishness of taste..shewn by some people for what is classic.
b. Dullness of spirits, ennui. rare.
1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. v. (1889) 44 All the companionship of boating and cricketing..won't keep him from many a long hour of mawkishness. |