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单词 hastiness
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hastinessn.

Brit. /ˈheɪstɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈheɪstinᵻs/
Forms:

α. Middle English hastinece, Middle English hastinez, Middle English hastynez, Middle English–1500s hastynes, Middle English–1500s hastynesse, Middle English–1600s hastines, Middle English–1600s hastinesse, 1500s haistines (Scottish), 1500s– hastiness.

β. late Middle English hastenes, late Middle English hastenys, late Middle English hastenesse.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hasty adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < hasty adj. + -ness suffix. Compare hastiveness n. and haste n.Perhaps compare Anglo-Norman hastinesse (a1350 in an isolated attestation), although this is more likely to be an error for hastiuesse hastivess n. Some of the β. forms may alternatively show a disyllabic form with haste n. as the first element; compare hastly adv. and the α. forms at hastily adv.
1. Excessive speed or urgency; quickness without due consideration or reflection; rashness, lack of deliberation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > undue
hastinessc1325
subitane1645
prematurity1706
trigger-happiness1945
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 9754 He acorsede alle þulke men..Þat of an false preste ne abbe eke him nouȝt. Þat word he sede ofte in hastinesse ywis.
c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Harl. 7334) (1885) §2323 Ȝe moste also dryue out of ȝour herte hastynes [c1405 Hengwrt hastifnesse]..For..þe comune prouerbe is þis; þat he þat soone demeth soone repentith.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 5767 (MED) Bachus..Ful ofte causeth folkis..To debate & for to make werre Of hastynes, wher as is no nede.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 44v Hastinesse of speche maketh men to erre.
a1500 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 281 Meny mane spekyth yn hastenys, Hyt hyndryth hym and eke hys frende.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 28 That people with a certaine hote hastinesse, brake out oftentimes to seke them idols.
1641 R. Baker Apol. Lay-mens Writing in Divinity 189 Oh the wonderfull dammage that is incurred by hastinesse and precipitancy.
1699 J. Stevens tr. J. de Mariana Gen. Hist. Spain xxii. viii. 382 The Venetians..sent Embassadors to him to excuse their Hastiness in concluding the League.
1752 J. Jortin Remarks Eccl. Hist. II. 96 Epiphanius was made up of hastiness and credulity.
1823 Churchman's Mag. July 193/2 A most obvious source of mistaken views in religion, is, the hastiness with which men make up their religious opinions.
1888 Academy 21 Jan. 49/1 Hastiness of execution.
1929 E. E. Kellett Whirligig of Taste vi. 107 We thus begin to suspect a hastiness in our judgments.
1978 tr. A. Solzhenitsyn in Times 26 July 6/5 Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the twentieth century.
2017 Cape Times (Nexis) 8 Nov. (Sport section) 22 Bosch regrets the hastiness with which he took the decision to play in Australia.
2.
a. Quickness of temper; tendency to sudden anger or irritation.
ΘΚΠ
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
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 2365 In gret wraþþe & hastinesse, to þe kinges chambre hii wende.
?c1350 N. Bozon Contes Moralisés (Gray's Inn 12) (1889) 20 Le corf dont respond en son engleys: Wel wurth suffraunce yat abatez strif, And wo worth hastinece [?a1400 Harl. 1288 hastynesse] yat reves man his lif.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 213 (MED) [Me] schal kutte..tresoun out of þe citee..incontynense and hastinesse out of alle þinges [L. a cunctis rebus intemperantia].
1448 Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Arms) 482 (MED) His eyen..thourgh stourbelyng of hert as sperkelyng fuyre, as lightnyng, with hastenesse.
a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 41 (MED) He waxed nye wood by hedy hastynesse.
a1500 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (Harl. 2250) (1926) l. 10630 (MED) And esy speche Also to haue, Noo hastynes ne cruelte.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKvi Hastinesse or irefulnesse.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 105 Thair ouir haistines, and ouer bent to reuenge.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) i. viii. 923 Scolding women, which do imitate the hastiness and froward disposition of the Wasp.
1685 Honourable State of Matrimony made Comfortable 132 Hast thou mourn'd and been afflicted for thy former hastiness of spirit, and causeless ventings of thy passion?
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xvi. iv. 35 You have a little too much Hastiness in your Temper. View more context for this quotation
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. v. 73 Laud..had the bluntness and hastiness of a monastic character.
1863 Friends' Intelligencer 3 Jan. 684/1 She is not without faults; as, for instance, hastiness of temper.
1910 Times 19 May 10/5 The irritability occasionally shown by sufferers from gout is often wrongly ascribed to..natural hastiness of disposition.
1976 Hist. Sci. 14 104 Such failings as hastiness of temper and a delight in the sarcastic rebuke.
2003 N. Foulkes Last of Dandies (2005) xxiii. 363 Sudden impulses of hastiness of temper (as distinguished from habitual ill-humour), had been subdued.
b. A group or company of cooks. rare.One of many alleged group names found in late Middle English sources, but not otherwise substantiated. Apparently revived in the early 21st cent.
ΚΠ
?1477 in Lydgate’s Horse, Ghoos, & Sheep (Caxton) A Hastynes of cookes.
2005 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 9 Sept. 34 Enough onion to keep a hastiness of cooks crying for a month.
3. Quickness, speed, rapidity; suddenness. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [noun]
hastinessc1425
maturity1531
swiftness1535
suddennessa1599
abruptness1604
instancy1851
immediacy1856
immediateness1863
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun]
swiftnessc888
speedOE
swiftship?c1225
swifthead1340
speedfulnessc1386
quickness?a1425
hastinessc1425
speediheadc1450
swiftinessa1464
radeur1477
celerity1483
speediness1530
swithnessc1540
velocity1555
raptness1582
pernicity1592
rapidity1601
fastness1604
fleetness1625
rida1642
rapidness1650
mercuriousnessa1661
c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 59 (MED) Also flowyng [of blood] þat comeþ sodeynly and with hastinez is mortale.
c1440 Privity of Passion (Thornton) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 201 (MED) Be-holde..how he es led forthe..bowande downewarde þe bake for werynesse & gret hastynesse.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) 1st Prol. 2 The shortnes..of thys lyfe, the hastynes of dethe.
1591 F. Sparry tr. C. de Cattan Geomancie 24 All hastinesse and swiftnesse is appointed vnto ♂ and ☿.
1624 W. Guild tr. Ælfric in tr. 3 Rare Monuments Antiq. 139 Those hee loveth, which seeke the joye of Ever-lasting Lyfe, with quicknesse, and hastinesse of mynd.
1676 W. Geaves Status Ecclesiæ Gallicanæ xi. 78 The hastiness of his death, shortned his malice.
1798 H. Lee Mysterious Marriage iii. 35 I like not the hastiness of her death.
1874 Monthly Packet Dec. 235 A little more hastiness of movement and less persistent energy.
1926 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 20/2 Every movement of his pen, they assert, denoted quickness, animation and much hastiness.
1979 T'oung Pao 65 207 In the stories..the simplicity of plot and the hastiness of action leave hardly any room for detection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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