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单词 fewness
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fewnessn.

Brit. /ˈfjuːnəs/, U.S. /ˈfjunəs/
Forms: see few adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: few adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < few adj. + -ness suffix.
1. The quality or fact of being few in number; small number; scantiness in number.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > fewness > [noun]
fewnesseOE
paucityc1425
thinnessc1440
exility1528
smallness1544
rareness1562
infrequency1600
exiguity1604
uninfiniteness1656
scarceness1672
exiguousness1727
spareness1822
sparseness1833
sparsity1865
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) ci. 21 (24) Paucitatem dierum meorum enuntia mihi : feanisse dega minra sege me.
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xv. 222 Seo feanis [L. paucitas] nedde þara sacerda, þætte aan biscop sceolde beon ofer tuu folc.
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) ci. 24 (MED) Telle to me þe fewenes [L. paucitatem] of my daies.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms ci. 24 Fewenesse of my daȝis.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) ci. 24 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 233 Feunesse of mi daies.
1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation xliii The fewnes of spyrytuall men.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 387 For feuenes thai did fle.
1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xvii. f. 50 The eyes..did denote a Saturnine disposition in him: and thys especiallye the fewnesse of wordes, and hardnesse in vttering them.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxxvi. 356/1 Seeing the fewnes of their pursuers.
1664 Antipharmacum Saluberrimum iii. 30 For their fewness, they may be included within the walls of a Private House.., yet it is a true Church.
1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 282 Spoke in vain because of the fewness of Auditors.
1796 T. Holcroft Man of Ten Thousand iv. iii. 50 How can man be so blind to the fewness of his wants, and the infinitude of his means?
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany ii. 9 I congratulated myself..on the fewness of the things which I possessed.
1892 C. S. Newhall Trees N.E. Amer. 192 The fewness and abruptness of its large branches give to it in the winter a dead and stumpy look.
1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) x. 225 Walking was too staid a word to describe the motion given to their bodies by..the fewness of their years.
2009 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Apr. a2 27 There was an element of self-parody on Brookner's part, in the fewness of the characters, the isolation of their lives.
2. The quality or fact of being low in amount; small quantity; an instance of this. Obsolete (poetic in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
littlenessOE
littleheadc1350
paucity?a1425
smallness?1532
slenderness?1542
exiguity1604
fewness1617
lowness1708
slightness1747
exiguousness1888
1617 T. Taylor Davids Learning viii. 333 The fewnesse or smalnesse of company in the way; few finde it.
1719 G. Bickerton tr. Accurate Disquis. in Physick xxxi. 105 The Belly is sometimes costive, and sometimes..loose with a fewness of Urine.
1861 C. Darwin Let. in F. Darwin Life & Lett. C. Darwin (1887) III. 265 The pollen, so important from its fewness.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket iii. iii. 144 Doth not the fewness of anything make the fulness of it in estimation?
1929 R. Graves Compl. Poems (1997) II. 15 If you dare to think Of the greatness, rareness, muchness, Fewness of this precious only Endless world in which you say You live, you think of things like this.

Phrases

fewness and truth: in few words and truly. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iv. 38 Fewnes, and truth; tis thus, Your brother, and his louer haue embrac'd. View more context for this quotation
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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