单词 | filthiness |
释义 | filthinessn. 1. a. The state or condition of being filthy; foulness, uncleanliness. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] foulnessOE uncleannessOE filthheadc1300 foulhead1340 filtha1425 filthiness?c1425 horynessc1425 uncleanliness1502 immundicity?1541 filthhood1582 dirtiness1607 slovenliness1617 muckiness1676 turpitude1684 muck1766 dirt1774 grot1971 ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 483 Passiouns of þe tieth..as akþe, gnawynge, cruddynge, slepyng, filþynesse [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. foulenesse; L. limositas], fallynge or movynge. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 122 Suche persones as came in thither pure and clene, were there enbrued with durte & fylthynesse. 1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xiii. sig. K.viv The prieste washeth his handes, that no outward filthynes should seclude hym from the communion. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Macc. ix. 9 The filthinesse of his smell was noysome to all his army. View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 162 The nastie filthinesse of the nation in generall. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra iii. ii. §49 The Deformity, and Filthyness of Swine, make them the Beauty-spot of the Animal Creation. ?1765 Case City London Goal Newgate 3/1 Enquiring into the Causes of it [sc. the communication of a fever], assigns for one, the Filthiness of the Goal, and the Avenues to it. 1834 Baltimore Med. & Surg. Jrnl. & Rev. 2 235 The excessive filthiness of the poor population. 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 111/1 Gaminess, the malodorousness proceeding from decay and—by implication—filthiness. 1910 Med. Brief 38 722/2 A rare instance of careless filthiness. 1953 Washington Post 8 May 22/2 Miss Edna Ferber..was horrified by the filthiness of the New York streets. 2011 C. McGinn Meaning of Disgust x. 223 Ask yourself how you would feel if some modern catastrophe reduced humans to the state of filthiness I describe. b. concrete. Unclean or disgusting matter, e.g. excrement; filth. Formerly also as a count noun. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > pus or matter wursomeOE yousterc725 warec1175 quittorc1300 corrumpciona1340 humour1340 atter1398 mattera1400 pus?a1425 filthiness1525 corruption1526 filth1561 gear1562 sanies1562 baggage1576 purulence1598 suppuration1601 lye1615 congestion1634 colluvies1651 collution1657 colloid1849 purulage1898 1525 Anothomia in tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Handy Warke Surg. vii. sig. B.iv/2 Ye blynde gut..hath. i. orificium to receyue ye hole fylthynes yt commyth of ye fyrst dysgestyon of ye bowels. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 485 The matter or filthinesse that commeth out of a byle. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxviii. 8 All tables are full of vomite and filthinesse . View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike lxviii. 537 They do every where..accuse obstructions occasionally induced by the injuries of filthinesses, as Diseases. 1720 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ VIII. xviii. iii. 115 Cloathed in Sackcloth, and covered with Filthiness and Horror. 1776 Young Clerk's Compl. Guide 106 The filthiness and nasty things of the said privy house of office, flowed out..into the cellar aforesaid. 1830 N.Y. Amulet 1 Sept. 121/3 The splendid palaces fell away..and their proud owners sat down on the ruins, covered with rags and filthiness. 1870 Glasgow Herald 2 June 4/2 One much-vaunted kind of tea was made of all filthiness of a Chinese gutter. 1900 Derbyshire Times 5 Dec. 3/7 A pair of mattresses..were black and dirty, and saturated with filthiness. 1959 J. Sours in S. Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry I. xiii. 286 The mother may regard the feces as a laudatory product or, on the other hand, as dirt and filthiness. 2. Moral foulness or corruption; vileness, wickedness; (now often) obscenity; depravity. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun] woughc888 naughteOE manOE evilness1000 fakenOE witherfulnessc1200 lithera1225 villainy?c1225 lithernessa1240 unwrastshipa1250 felonyc1290 shrewheadc1290 litherhead1297 illa1300 wicknessa1300 follyc1300 iniquity13.. shrewdom13.. wickhedec1305 shrewdheadc1315 shrewdnessc1315 unwrastnessc1315 wickednessa1340 malicea1382 unequityc1384 lewdnessa1387 mischiefa1387 wickedleka1400 wickedredea1400 badnessc1400 shrewdshipc1400 shrewnessc1425 ungoodlihead1430 wickdomc1440 rudenessc1451 mauvasty1474 unkindliness1488 noughtinessa1500 perversenessa1500 illnessc1500 filthiness?1504 noisomeness1506 naughtiness?1529 noughtihoodc1540 inexcellence1590 improbity1593 flagition1598 meschancy1609 scelerateness1613 pravity1620 meschantnessa1630 flagitiousness1692 flagitiosity1727 nefariousness1727 bale-fire1855 ill-conditionedness1866 iniquitousness1870 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > foulness or filth > [noun] fenc897 foulnessOE foulhead1340 filthiness?1504 lepry1526 fedity1542 leprosy?1555 fulsomeness1563 disdain1590 obscenitya1618 sewer1647 fetidness1704 putridity1823 fetidity1829 disgustingness1851 feculence1860 grunginess1978 society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > moral foulness foulnessOE foulhead1340 filthiness?1504 fedity1542 filthery?1546 rottenness1548 feculence1860 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > lewdness, bawdiness, or obscenity filthOE harlotryc1384 filthiness?1504 brothelry?1526 lewdness1578 obscenity1589 obscenousness1591 spurcity1608 obscenenessa1637 bawdiness1731 priapism1758 nast1789 hircosity1873 raunch1957 raunchiness1962 sluttiness1972 slackness1980 ?1504 M. Beaufort tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iv. vi. sig. bii Lorde whan I thynke of thy worthynesse and of my great fylthynes, I tremble strongly & am confounded in my selfe. 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 80 The scluttishnes, filthines, and foulnes of the soule. a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. x. 301 This deformity and filthiness of Sin. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 204 The Grandeur of the Soul cannot consist with the filthiness of Avarice. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 138 A Woman that seems to delight in Filthiness. 1771 J. Eyre Observ. Prophecies Restoration Jews 25 Cleansing many nations from the filthiness of idolatry. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. vi. 103 Men reeking with all the filthiness of vice. 1892 G. C. Lorimer What I know about Bks. v. 53 They..have saturated the mind with unpurgable filthiness. 1920 H. A. Jones Patriotism & Pop. Educ. 34 I have heard a blazing popular comedian deliver lines of ill-concealed filthiness. 1956 Boston Sunday Globe 13 May 71/5 Hollywood has been excoriated for..the filthiness of its pictures and its bad influence on the youth of the nation. 2000 Front Oct. 44 (heading) Talking topics of such filthiness that a pimp would be forced to blush. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1425 |
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