anilityn.

Brit.

/əˈnɪlᵻti/, U.S.

/əˈnɪlᵻdi/,

/æˈnɪlᵻdi/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin anīlitāt-, anīlitās.

Etymology: < classical Latin anīlitāt-, anīlitās old age (in women) < anīlis anile adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix).

1. The state, condition, or quality of being an old woman, or like an old woman; an instance of this. Frequently derogatory with connotations of foolishness, senility, or decrepitude. Cf. puerility n. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] > state of being

anility1623

beldamship1633

anileness1727

tabbyhood1797

old-wifery1827

old womanism1828

old-womanry1828

old-womanliness1877

old-ladyhood1888

old-womanishness1914

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychogeriatric illness > senile dementia

anility1623

senile dementia1851

presenility1900

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Anility, Dotage.

1735 Refl. Mohammedism 41 Another Account.., which is much shorter, and void of the prodigious Anilities of the larger Account.

1760 L. Sterne Serm. III. 277 This reformation..perfected and handed down, if not ‘entirely without spot or wrinkle,’ at least without great blotches or marks of anility!

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 103 Youth can never be anility, nor beauty become ugliness.

1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 206 The fopperies and anilities of fashion.

1859 Q. Jrnl. Prophecy Jan. 78 But if our author's philosophy raised him above the puerility of consulting Gibbon for the fall of the Roman empire, it should have led him to eschew the anility of those who turn to Josephus for the fall of Jerusalem.

1918 Current Opinion Sept. 182/3 She lived to a very old age and dwindled into anility.

1987 E. Fuchs Israeli Mythogynies iii. 57 Focusing on the absentmindedness of the young beauty..and the anility of the old woman.

†2. Old women collectively. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1806 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 178 This..feeble lady, instead of using the influence she has obtained over the anility of these realms,..pretends to deny that the evil [sc. the illiteracy of the poor] exists.

1849 Punch 15 31/2 For on the Sugar Debate, Mr. Oswald thus delivered himself, to the enduring glory of the anility of Ayrshire.

1876 R. Barnes Lect. Obstetr. Oper. (ed. 3) xxviii. 527 The nurse and all the anility of the neighbourhood will be sure to cry out, ‘Mrs. A. died because Dr. Z. did not take away all the after-birth.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	anility
释义	anilityn. Brit. /əˈnɪlᵻti/, U.S. /əˈnɪlᵻdi/, /æˈnɪlᵻdi/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin anīlitāt-, anīlitās. Etymology: < classical Latin anīlitāt-, anīlitās old age (in women) < anīlis anile adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). 1. The state, condition, or quality of being an old woman, or like an old woman; an instance of this. Frequently derogatory with connotations of foolishness, senility, or decrepitude. Cf. puerility n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] > state of being anility1623 beldamship1633 anileness1727 tabbyhood1797 old-wifery1827 old womanism1828 old-womanry1828 old-womanliness1877 old-ladyhood1888 old-womanishness1914 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > psychogeriatric illness > senile dementia anility1623 senile dementia1851 presenility1900 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Anility, Dotage. 1735 Refl. Mohammedism 41 Another Account.., which is much shorter, and void of the prodigious Anilities of the larger Account. 1760 L. Sterne Serm. III. 277 This reformation..perfected and handed down, if not ‘entirely without spot or wrinkle,’ at least without great blotches or marks of anility! a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 103 Youth can never be anility, nor beauty become ugliness. 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 50 206 The fopperies and anilities of fashion. 1859 Q. Jrnl. Prophecy Jan. 78 But if our author's philosophy raised him above the puerility of consulting Gibbon for the fall of the Roman empire, it should have led him to eschew the anility of those who turn to Josephus for the fall of Jerusalem. 1918 Current Opinion Sept. 182/3 She lived to a very old age and dwindled into anility. 1987 E. Fuchs Israeli Mythogynies iii. 57 Focusing on the absentmindedness of the young beauty..and the anility of the old woman. †2. Old women collectively. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1806 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 178 This..feeble lady, instead of using the influence she has obtained over the anility of these realms,..pretends to deny that the evil [sc. the illiteracy of the poor] exists. 1849 Punch 15 31/2 For on the Sugar Debate, Mr. Oswald thus delivered himself, to the enduring glory of the anility of Ayrshire. 1876 R. Barnes Lect. Obstetr. Oper. (ed. 3) xxviii. 527 The nurse and all the anility of the neighbourhood will be sure to cry out, ‘Mrs. A. died because Dr. Z. did not take away all the after-birth.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1623
随便看	in all honesty in all likelihood in all likeliness in all manner of ways in all my born days in all my natural in all one's born puff in all one's heart in all one's main in all one's puff in all post-haste in all posthaste in all probability in all respects in all seeming in all seriousness in all shapes and sizes in all sorts in all the world in all the worlds in all the worlds of worlds in all thing in all ways in all weathers in all worlds