fierinessn.

Brit.

/ˈfʌɪərɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈfaɪ(ə)rinᵻs/

Forms: late Middle English fyrynesse, 1600s fierinesse, 1600s firines, 1600s firinesse, 1600s–1700s firiness, 1600s 1800s fieryness, 1600s– fieriness.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fiery adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < fiery adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier firelihead n.

a. The condition of being hot or burning; heat, hotness. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > flaming heat

fieriness?a1425

flame-heat1815

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 163 (MED) Fyrynesse [L. igneitas] in þe yren may better be mesured þan in gold or syluer for þe colour.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ignition,..firinesse; the being red-hot.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 104 Water is sprinkled, to mitigate the Fieriness of the Sun.

1875 Calcutta Rev. 61 281 If we pass clay through the fire we end in making bricks, hardened in proportion to the ‘fieriness’ of the furnace through which they are passed.

2008 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Sept. (Travel section) 4 Your guide will boil an egg for breakfast to demonstrate the fieriness of the volcanic pools.

†b. Excessive heat in a part of the body, esp. that resulting from inflammation. Obsolete. fieriness of the face: erysipelas; cf. St Anthony's fire at St Anthony n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > [noun]

heatc1000

fireOE

burning1382

phlegmona1398

disdainc1400

angerc1440

scaldingc1450

brounes1528

inflaming1530

combustion?1541

inflammation1541

incension1598

fieriness1600

angriness1612

exustion1657

phlogosis1666

phlegmasia1706

scald1882

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > erysipelas

wildfirec1000

St. Francis' fireOE

burning1382

erysipelas1398

holy fire1398

rose1599

fieriness of the face1600

fiery1600

Anthony's fire1609

sacred fire1693

sideration1828

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 268 The water distilled of the flowers, quencheth the firines of the face [Fr. la rougeur & goutterose de la face].

1657 tr. P. Morel Expert Doctors Dispensatory ii. i. 186 To the same end sometimes cooling things are applyed to the hand-wrists, against the heat and fervency of the heart, so also to the fieriness of the face [L. erysipelata faciei].

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxiii. 139 When all the fieriness and burning is gone, Phlebotomy will be of good use in such places, as the Wound will permit.

1670 G. Harvey Little Venus Unmask'd (ed. 2) iv. 39 A Frenchman..is troubled with an extreme fiery itching manginess..by reason of the fieriness of his blood.

1809 C. Bell Syst. Operative Surg. II. 75 A diminished irritability, the eyelids more flaccid, the fieriness being gone though the redness remain.

c. The property of a food or (alcoholic) drink of producing a sensation of heat when consumed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > applied to sensations of the tongue

firish1568

cool1589

fieriness1675

coolish1768

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [noun]

sharpnessc1000

sournessc1050

sourheada1400

eagerness?a1425

verdure1508

tartness1530

acetosity1599

acidity1615

sourfulness1617

tetricity1623

tetritude1656

tartarousness1657

acidness1660

sourishness1670

fieriness1675

acescency1756

1675 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Corrosiveness ii. v. 58 I have sometimes found that Liquor to give the Lime a kind of Alcalizat penetrancy, not to say fieriness of Taste.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 157 Their Relishing Bits have not the Fieriness of ours.

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 393 Flavour, mellowness and a due strength without fieriness, comprised all that need be desired to produce a British Brandy.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 70/2 A ball of fire in popular slang is a glass of brandy, in allusion to the fieriness and pungency of the wretchedly bad spirit sold as brandy to the lower classes.

1976 N.Y. Times 10 Nov. 60/6 Red pepper adds to the flavor as well as to the fieriness, and chili deserves at least a pinch of it.

2002 New Statesman 2 Dec. 58 I love the fieriness of the ginger cordial.

2. The nature or qualities of fire.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > quality of being fiery

firishness1568

fieriness1624

1624 ‘E. Orandus’ tr. Artephius in tr. N. Flamel Expos. Hieroglyphicall Figures St. Innocent's Church-yard 170 This water it is which sends into the Body a white fume, which is the white soule, subtile, hot, and of much fierinesse.

1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 74 As if a burning Mountain had been cast into the Sea, the earthiness and fieriness thereof being so contrary..to Water.

1794 T. Morell Notes & Annot. on Locke iii. viii. 96 It is only to express some peculiar quality, and not all the qualities; as in aquosity, fieriness, &c.

1855 H. W. Carstens Trifolium 63 The mild longing of the Clouds communicates itself to them as well as the rushing fieriness of the Lightning.

1893 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. July 475 Fieriness is essential to the nature of lightning.

1959 Traditio 15 309 Happiness is the property of the divine in the same sense that fieriness is the property of fire.

2012 D. Ogden in R. Stoneman et al. Alexander Romance in Persia & East iv. 278 The mixture destroys the dragon..by matching its fieriness..with fire.

3. The condition or fact of being hot-tempered or passionate; vivacity, feistiness; eagerness, zeal. Also: animation of the eyes as a result of strong emotion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [noun]

suscitability1612

fieriness1625

heat1689

inflammability1787

excitability1797

mobility1824

inflammableness1830

excitableness1875

gustiness1901

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun]

hastinessc1325

melancholya1375

hastivenessa1393

hastivessa1393

rese?a1400

hastivitya1500

fumishness1519

choler1530

firishness1568

cholericness1571

waspishness1593

fieriness1625

irascibility1750

parlousness1755

temper1828

provocability1834

quickness1863

tempersomeness1909

1625 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God 99 The brutish deformities and vgly distortions with which this rage disfigures those which are transported with it; as the fierinesse of the eyes.

1655 S. Rutherford Covenant of Life Opened ii. iv. 280 Feeling of it self is not faulty, the fierinesse and excessive fervour of feeling is faulty.

1675 tr. W. Camden Hist. Princess Elizabeth (rev. ed.) iv. 568 The Fieriness and Heat of his Youth.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 44 Natural Fieriness of Temper.

1797 W. Godwin Caleb Williams (ed. 3) I. iv. 74 The fieriness of Mr. Tyrell brought Mr. Falkland to his recollection.

1852 Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 9 244/1 He has none of that restive fieriness, that eccentric irregularity, deemed the characteristic temperament of authors.

1885 Cent. Mag. July 416/2 You may believe Mistral was roused at that; he almost lost his temper; then, with a fieriness entirely southern: ‘Why?’

1908 Current Lit. Nov. 511 Miss Corelli reveals by the fieriness of her vitality how completely she has recovered from the illness.

1974 Gramophone Nov. 884/2 The finale.., though paced..with a nice feeling for the music's mingled geniality and fieriness, is spoiled.

2014 Sun (Nexis) 16 Oct. 70 It brings out the fieriness in me.

4. The fact or quality of resembling fire in luminosity or colour.

ΚΠ

1634 F. Meres Wits Common Wealth 156 In the stone Opalum the semblance of many precious stones is seene, as the fierinesse of the Carbuncle, the purple of the Amethist, and the greennesse of the Emerald.

1716 T. Prince in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1793) 2 14 All this while, the brightness, bloodiness and fieriness of the colour..increased insomuch as we could hardly trace them with our eyes.

1837 W. Dearden Star-seer v. 113 His eyes..Drink from its orb such fieriness of hue.

1898 M. Betham-Edwards Storm-rent Sky (ed. 2) vi. 56 Morning after morning the sun rose amid amber sky, no cloud dimming the fieriness of its beams, no breeze stirring the leafage.

1959 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 107 772 He invests the Edinburgh scene with an encrusted richness and fieriness of colour that proceeds without any sense of forcing from his strange intensity of vision.

2003 R. Cork Breaking down Barriers 448 Auburn fieriness bursts upon a surface rough enough to conjure the flinty grey wall of the house in the country.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fieriness
释义	fierinessn. Brit. /ˈfʌɪərɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈfaɪ(ə)rinᵻs/ Forms: late Middle English fyrynesse, 1600s fierinesse, 1600s firines, 1600s firinesse, 1600s–1700s firiness, 1600s 1800s fieryness, 1600s– fieriness. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fiery adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < fiery adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier firelihead n. 1. a. The condition of being hot or burning; heat, hotness. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > flaming heat fieriness?a1425 flame-heat1815 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 163 (MED) Fyrynesse [L. igneitas] in þe yren may better be mesured þan in gold or syluer for þe colour. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ignition,..firinesse; the being red-hot. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 104 Water is sprinkled, to mitigate the Fieriness of the Sun. 1875 Calcutta Rev. 61 281 If we pass clay through the fire we end in making bricks, hardened in proportion to the ‘fieriness’ of the furnace through which they are passed. 2008 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 Sept. (Travel section) 4 Your guide will boil an egg for breakfast to demonstrate the fieriness of the volcanic pools. †b. Excessive heat in a part of the body, esp. that resulting from inflammation. Obsolete. fieriness of the face: erysipelas; cf. St Anthony's fire at St Anthony n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > [noun] heatc1000 fireOE burning1382 phlegmona1398 disdainc1400 angerc1440 scaldingc1450 brounes1528 inflaming1530 combustion?1541 inflammation1541 incension1598 fieriness1600 angriness1612 exustion1657 phlogosis1666 phlegmasia1706 scald1882 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > erysipelas wildfirec1000 St. Francis' fireOE burning1382 erysipelas1398 holy fire1398 rose1599 fieriness of the face1600 fiery1600 Anthony's fire1609 sacred fire1693 sideration1828 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 268 The water distilled of the flowers, quencheth the firines of the face [Fr. la rougeur & goutterose de la face]. 1657 tr. P. Morel Expert Doctors Dispensatory ii. i. 186 To the same end sometimes cooling things are applyed to the hand-wrists, against the heat and fervency of the heart, so also to the fieriness of the face [L. erysipelata faciei]. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxiii. 139 When all the fieriness and burning is gone, Phlebotomy will be of good use in such places, as the Wound will permit. 1670 G. Harvey Little Venus Unmask'd (ed. 2) iv. 39 A Frenchman..is troubled with an extreme fiery itching manginess..by reason of the fieriness of his blood. 1809 C. Bell Syst. Operative Surg. II. 75 A diminished irritability, the eyelids more flaccid, the fieriness being gone though the redness remain. c. The property of a food or (alcoholic) drink of producing a sensation of heat when consumed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > applied to sensations of the tongue firish1568 cool1589 fieriness1675 coolish1768 the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [noun] sharpnessc1000 sournessc1050 sourheada1400 eagerness?a1425 verdure1508 tartness1530 acetosity1599 acidity1615 sourfulness1617 tetricity1623 tetritude1656 tartarousness1657 acidness1660 sourishness1670 fieriness1675 acescency1756 1675 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Corrosiveness ii. v. 58 I have sometimes found that Liquor to give the Lime a kind of Alcalizat penetrancy, not to say fieriness of Taste. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 157 Their Relishing Bits have not the Fieriness of ours. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 393 Flavour, mellowness and a due strength without fieriness, comprised all that need be desired to produce a British Brandy. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 70/2 A ball of fire in popular slang is a glass of brandy, in allusion to the fieriness and pungency of the wretchedly bad spirit sold as brandy to the lower classes. 1976 N.Y. Times 10 Nov. 60/6 Red pepper adds to the flavor as well as to the fieriness, and chili deserves at least a pinch of it. 2002 New Statesman 2 Dec. 58 I love the fieriness of the ginger cordial. 2. The nature or qualities of fire. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > quality of being fiery firishness1568 fieriness1624 1624 ‘E. Orandus’ tr. Artephius in tr. N. Flamel Expos. Hieroglyphicall Figures St. Innocent's Church-yard 170 This water it is which sends into the Body a white fume, which is the white soule, subtile, hot, and of much fierinesse. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 74 As if a burning Mountain had been cast into the Sea, the earthiness and fieriness thereof being so contrary..to Water. 1794 T. Morell Notes & Annot. on Locke iii. viii. 96 It is only to express some peculiar quality, and not all the qualities; as in aquosity, fieriness, &c. 1855 H. W. Carstens Trifolium 63 The mild longing of the Clouds communicates itself to them as well as the rushing fieriness of the Lightning. 1893 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. July 475 Fieriness is essential to the nature of lightning. 1959 Traditio 15 309 Happiness is the property of the divine in the same sense that fieriness is the property of fire. 2012 D. Ogden in R. Stoneman et al. Alexander Romance in Persia & East iv. 278 The mixture destroys the dragon..by matching its fieriness..with fire. 3. The condition or fact of being hot-tempered or passionate; vivacity, feistiness; eagerness, zeal. Also: animation of the eyes as a result of strong emotion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [noun] suscitability1612 fieriness1625 heat1689 inflammability1787 excitability1797 mobility1824 inflammableness1830 excitableness1875 gustiness1901 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > [noun] hastinessc1325 melancholya1375 hastivenessa1393 hastivessa1393 rese?a1400 hastivitya1500 fumishness1519 choler1530 firishness1568 cholericness1571 waspishness1593 fieriness1625 irascibility1750 parlousness1755 temper1828 provocability1834 quickness1863 tempersomeness1909 1625 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God 99 The brutish deformities and vgly distortions with which this rage disfigures those which are transported with it; as the fierinesse of the eyes. 1655 S. Rutherford Covenant of Life Opened ii. iv. 280 Feeling of it self is not faulty, the fierinesse and excessive fervour of feeling is faulty. 1675 tr. W. Camden Hist. Princess Elizabeth (rev. ed.) iv. 568 The Fieriness and Heat of his Youth. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 44 Natural Fieriness of Temper. 1797 W. Godwin Caleb Williams (ed. 3) I. iv. 74 The fieriness of Mr. Tyrell brought Mr. Falkland to his recollection. 1852 Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 9 244/1 He has none of that restive fieriness, that eccentric irregularity, deemed the characteristic temperament of authors. 1885 Cent. Mag. July 416/2 You may believe Mistral was roused at that; he almost lost his temper; then, with a fieriness entirely southern: ‘Why?’ 1908 Current Lit. Nov. 511 Miss Corelli reveals by the fieriness of her vitality how completely she has recovered from the illness. 1974 Gramophone Nov. 884/2 The finale.., though paced..with a nice feeling for the music's mingled geniality and fieriness, is spoiled. 2014 Sun (Nexis) 16 Oct. 70 It brings out the fieriness in me. 4. The fact or quality of resembling fire in luminosity or colour. ΚΠ 1634 F. Meres Wits Common Wealth 156 In the stone Opalum the semblance of many precious stones is seene, as the fierinesse of the Carbuncle, the purple of the Amethist, and the greennesse of the Emerald. 1716 T. Prince in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1793) 2 14 All this while, the brightness, bloodiness and fieriness of the colour..increased insomuch as we could hardly trace them with our eyes. 1837 W. Dearden Star-seer v. 113 His eyes..Drink from its orb such fieriness of hue. 1898 M. Betham-Edwards Storm-rent Sky (ed. 2) vi. 56 Morning after morning the sun rose amid amber sky, no cloud dimming the fieriness of its beams, no breeze stirring the leafage. 1959 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 107 772 He invests the Edinburgh scene with an encrusted richness and fieriness of colour that proceeds without any sense of forcing from his strange intensity of vision. 2003 R. Cork Breaking down Barriers 448 Auburn fieriness bursts upon a surface rough enough to conjure the flinty grey wall of the house in the country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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