| 释义 |
shapeliness|ˈʃeɪplɪnɪs|
[f. shapely a. + -ness.]
The condition of being shapely.
1388Wyclif Song Sol. v. 15 His schapplinesse [1382 fairnesse] is as of the Liban. ― Ps. xliv. 5 Biholde thou in thi schaplynesse. 1755in Johnson. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 294 The shapeliness of the lime and horse-chesnut. 1865Swinburne Chastelard i. i. 23 True, a goodly man. What shapeliness and state he hath. 1884J. R. Seeley in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 497 When we speak of Goethe as having created the literature of Germany, do we mean that he brought it back from wildness to Greek shapeliness and decorum? |