单词 | exuberance |
释义 | exuberancen. 1. a. The quality or condition of being exuberant; abundant productiveness; luxuriance of growth; overflowing fullness (of joy, health, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [noun] > condition of fatheada1325 fecundityc1420 fertility1490 battleness1598 pinguity1623 exuberance1691 richness1796 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 23 Express the common exuberance of the loading and middle Shoots. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 106 The primitive Exuberance of the Earth was lessened. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 22 A happy exuberance of animal spirits. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 557 A sweet guileless child, playing in the exuberance of its happiness. 1882 A. W. Ward Dickens iii. 58 Nothing is wanting..to attest the exuberance of its author's genius. b. Copiousness or redundance of expression. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] ampleness1509 copiousness1699 exuberance1717 floridness1830 1717 S. Garth in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses Pref. p. vii In his Simile's, that Exuberance is avoided. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 23 Dec. 297 The man of exuberance and copiousness. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii.xxix. 108 This inventive genius, whose exuberance astonishes us. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > of excess exuberance1750 overcorrection1830 1750 H. Fielding Tom Jones (new ed.) I. iii. v. 116 That the different Exuberances [1749 Exuberancies] of these Gentlemen, would correct their different Imperfections. 1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 31 Allowing me in my Exuberance one way for my Deficiencies in others. d. An extravagance, excessive outburst. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [noun] > exuberant outburst excrescence1629 excrescency1638 ebulliency1676 ebullience1749 exuberance1841 elation1870 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 193 His generous impulses burst into the wild exuberances of the reveries of astrology. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 121 The criticism on his own doctrine..has..been considered..an exuberance of the metaphysical imagination. 2. a. An overflowing amount or quantity; a superabundance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > superabundance flood1340 overabundancea1382 abundancec1384 excessa1387 superfluitya1387 surcarka1400 superabundance?a1475 superfluencea1477 abundancy?1526 superfluousnessa1540 pleurisya1550 inundation1589 exsuperance1603 plethory1606 overplus1609 exuberancy1611 redoundancy1623 superabundancy1628 exsuperancy1638 exuberance1638 floodings1674 plethora1700 embarrassment1815 profligacy1834 overfullness1884 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 373 Fatnesse is..an Exuberance of Nourishment, above that which is voyded by Excrement. 1768 W. Gilpin Ess. Prints 90 There is an exuberance of fancy in him. 1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Mountains & Lakes Cumberland I. 137 An exuberance of water. 1868 E. P. Wright Ocean World iii. 65 An exuberance of life of which no other portion of the globe could give us any idea. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] wealc888 ednessa1200 richessea1200 richdomc1225 richesses?c1225 wealtha1275 richesc1275 winc1275 warison1297 wonea1300 merchandisec1300 aver1330 richesc1330 substancea1382 abundancec1384 suffisance1390 talenta1400 pelf?a1505 opulence?1518 wealthsa1533 money bag1562 capital1569 opulency1584 affluency1591 affluence1593 exuberance1675 nabobism1784 money1848 1675 E. Cocker Morals 37 Exuberance is turn'd to Indigence. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 105. ⁋11 Many had great exuberance, and few confessed any want. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part > an excrescence exuberancya1634 mushroom1648 exuberance1665 excrescencea1680 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 120 Sulphur, or other like exuberances of Nature. 1687 J. Clayton Let. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 149 Punk,..the inward Part of the Excrescence or Exuberance of an Oak. 1781 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 14 Apr. Kindness must be commonly the exuberance of content. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. i. 89 They [the rocks] appear..smooth, and their exuberances rounded off. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1638 |
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