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pensiveness|ˈpɛnsɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or state of being pensive; thoughtfulness, usually tinged with melancholy; heaviness of mind or heart, sadness, melancholy; † anxious thought as to coming events, apprehensiveness (obs.).
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xiv. (1555), Now ye are gone, pensyfnesse me sleath. 1515Barclay Ecloges iii. in Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. lvii, The pensiveness and payne Of courtiers or they their wages can obtayne. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. xxix. 73 The rest of the Fleete was so cast away before their eyes, wherewith they were stroken into a very great pensiuenesse. 1601Holland Pliny I. 8 He deliuered the army from all pensiueness and feare. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 22 For him that rives blocks or carries packs, there is no great expence of parts, no anxiety of mind, no great intellectuall pensiveness. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 204 ⁋7 The moments crept imperceptibly away through the gloom of pensiveness. 1827J. W. Croker Diary 17 Feb., There was not only no grief, but not even a decent pensiveness. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. II. 31 The divine pensiveness of a Madonna's face. |