| 释义 |
ˈsouthernness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The property or quality of being southern in character.
1891Harper's Mag. Sept. 640/2 It is all very Southern, and nicely differentiated in its Kentucky Southernness from..Louisianian life. 1903Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 2/1, I understood the Southernness of Brive..in this characteristic. 1931Blunden Votive Tablets 210 The weaknesses of his verse,..the exuberant southernness of so much of it might be effeminate. 1966Listener 10 Mar. 357/3 Cleanth Brooks's recent book on the Southernness of Faulkner. 1973D. Aaron Unwritten War vii. 118 Charleston, the hatchery of rebellion and quintessence of Southernness. 1980T. Holme Neapolitan Streak 10 He had never shown..prejudice against Peroni's southern-ness as most northerners invariably did. |