grotesquerien.

/ɡrəʊˈtɛskəri/

Forms: Also grotesquery.

Etymology: as if < French *grotesquerie, < grotesque grotesque n. and adj.

Grotesque objects collectively; grotesque quality; a piece of grotesqueness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > collective

grotesquerie1655

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vi. 536 In a large Compartiment compos'd of Groteskery were seene Sphynxes, Harpyes, the Clawes of Lyons, and Tygres, to evidence, that within, inhabited Misteries, and Riddles.

1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. II. 339 Where so much is beautiful, the occasional anomalies and grotesqueries of taste fail to offend you.

1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings I. v. 92 Casting a jet of gentle humour over the grim grotesquerie of the situation.

1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. iii. 59 The incidents..of waking existence are therein..tossed and heaped together as the materials of a wild grotesquerie.

1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country xiii. 197 She showed her sense of degradation in the brutal grotesquery.

1885 Manch. Examiner 22 July 3/2 The inventive grotesquerie of his [Gustave Doré's] later work.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	grotesquerie
释义	grotesquerien. /ɡrəʊˈtɛskəri/ Forms: Also grotesquery. Etymology: as if < French grotesquerie, < grotesque* grotesque n. and adj. Grotesque objects collectively; grotesque quality; a piece of grotesqueness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun] > grotesqueness > collective grotesquerie1655 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. vi. 536 In a large Compartiment compos'd of Groteskery were seene Sphynxes, Harpyes, the Clawes of Lyons, and Tygres, to evidence, that within, inhabited Misteries, and Riddles. 1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad 2nd Ser. II. 339 Where so much is beautiful, the occasional anomalies and grotesqueries of taste fail to offend you. 1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings I. v. 92 Casting a jet of gentle humour over the grim grotesquerie of the situation. 1878 P. Bayne Chief Actors Puritan Revol. iii. 59 The incidents..of waking existence are therein..tossed and heaped together as the materials of a wild grotesquerie. 1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country xiii. 197 She showed her sense of degradation in the brutal grotesquery. 1885 Manch. Examiner 22 July 3/2 The inventive grotesquerie of his [Gustave Doré's] later work. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1655
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