| 单词 | greaterness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈgreaterness ˈgreaterness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > surpassing excellence > [noun] pricea1275 sovereigntyc1340 primacyc1384 sublimityc1429 vassalagec1430 precellence?a1439 pre-excellencec1450 pre-eminencec1460 superexcellencec1475 chief1519 pre-eminency1523 greaterness1540 precellency1557 superexcellency?1563 divinenessa1586 superancya1586 sublimenessa1599 pre-excellency1603 especialness1614 transcendencea1616 transcendency1615 transcendentness1625 top1627 antecellency1657 quality1665 transcendingness1730 transcendentalism1841 surpassingness1879 transcendentality1881 1540 T. Wyatt Let. to Henry VIII 3 Feb. in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VIII. v. 241 In the originall it hathe no suche relation to lessernes or gretternes of parsones. 1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. i. ii. 59 The working of God is infinite..for otherwise there should bee a greaternesse in being, and a lessenesse in working. 1683 W. Petty Observ. Dublin Bills Mortality in Several Ess. Polit. Arithm. (1755) 39 Whether the Cause of this Difference were Negligence in Accompts, or the Greaterness of the Families, &c. is worth inquiring. c1705 G. Berkeley Commonplace Bk. in Wks. (1871) IV. 485 Why should we judge her [sc. the horizontal moon] to be greater? What connexion betwixt the same angle, further distant, and greaterness? 1868 A. Sandeman Pelicotetics iii. 188 This The Multiple Test of the greaterness and lessness of ratio is made the Definition in Euclid's Fifth Book. 1913 V. von Kubinyi Behind Curtain 105 It is easy to recognize greatness, but it takes grace to recognize greaterness. 1960 W. V. Quine Word & Object vi. 197 Various traits (such as greaterness than 4). 2001 W. C. Chittick tr. B. Afḍal in Heart of Islamic Philos. vi. 236 If a body is greater than another body in existence, this greaterness is from a state and thing other than the body. < as lemmas |
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