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crossness|ˈkrɒsnɪs, ˈkrɔːs-|
[f. cross a. + -ness.]
1. The state or quality of being cross, transverse, or athwart; ‘transverseness, intersection’ (J.).
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxiii. 107 To keep them [laws] from being..too ful of multiplicitie and crossnesse. 1750Walpole Lett. G. Montagu (1891) II. 211 Lord Petersham, with his hose and legs twisted to every point of crossness.
2. The state of being contrary or opposed; opposition, adverseness.
1641Disc. Pr. Henry in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 525 Through any crossness of cards or chance. 1674Hickman Quinquart. Hist. (ed. 2) 171 Let us see whether there be any such crossness or no. 1736Carte Ormonde II. 449 There being besides crossness of interests, some private piques between the Prince and him.
b. of the wind: cf. cross a. 1 c.
1646Ld. Digby Let. in Carte Ormonde (1735) III. 456 The crossness of the winds to the shipping which they expected. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xii. (1704) III. 251 That the crossness of the Wind only hinder'd the arrival of those Supplies.
3. a. Disposition to oppose or be contrary; perverse tendency, disposition, or temper.
1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. iii. 184 She will die if hee wooe her, rather than shee will bate one breath of her accustomed crossenesse. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 I. 7 A peevish crossness and obstinate repugnancy to received laws. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 372 The scoffer and caviller move as much by impulse of vanity as crossness.
b. Peevishness, ill-humour.
1741Richardson Pamela I. 61, I am vex'd his Crossness affects me so. 1823Lamb Elia (1860) 160, I missed his kindness, and I missed his crossness, and wished him to be alive again. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. i. v. 28, I beg your pardon for my crossness, but you put me out of temper. |