| 释义 |
ˈnorthernness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The state of being in a northern situation.
1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xix. (1856) 149 Eight hundred miles from the Polar limit of all northernness. 1856― Arct. Explor. I. x. 108 This indication of our extreme northernness.
2. The quality of being from the north.
1939C. S. Lewis Rehabilitations ii. 37, I knew one who could come no nearer to an explanation of Morris's charm than to repeat ‘It's the Northernness—the Northernness’. 1955E. Blishen Roaring Boys ii. 74 To our grey northern-ness they brought a southern gleam. 1968G. Jones Hist. Vikings 2 Though they had many ties..to remind them of a shared northernness, they had but little sense of a separate Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian nationality. 1975C. N. Manlove Mod. Fantasy iv. 100 Despite lifelong fascination for ‘Northernness’, and interests in the medieval School of Chartres and in the Renaissance, he never felt the urge to visit their sources in Scandinavia, France or Italy. |