单词 | immanity |
释义 | immanityn. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun] rethenesseOE grimcundleȝcc1175 fellhead1340 ferteec1380 fiercenessc1384 savagenessa1400 grimliness14.. fellnessc1410 bestialitya1413 fierceheadc1440 cruelness?a1475 inhumanity1477 bremeness?1529 fury1534 tigerness1535 bruteness1538 immanity1539 wolvishness?1548 ferity?c1550 brutishness1567 truculency1569 Phalarism1581 ferocity1606 savagerya1616 brutality1633 inhumanness1649 wolfishness1676 boarishness1682 brutism1687 truculence1727 ferociousness1766 bestialism1824 tigerhood1846 Calibanism1859 unhumanness1885 inhumanism1907 Hunnishness1914 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > inhuman inhumanity1477 bruteness1538 immanity1539 Phalarism1581 brutality1633 inhumanness1649 brutalism1803 unhumanness1885 inhumanism1907 1539 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wisedome sig. I.iiii To scorne good men, wyckednes, lewde men cruelnesse, familyarly acqueynted immanitie. 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes f. 115/1 To shewe more their immanitie..they dranke the bloude of him that was lately alyue. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ii. §6. 207 Those notable immanities, which Dolabella exercised, vpon the body of Trebonius. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 512 Phalaris the Tyrant came to that degree of Cruelty and Immanity, that he devour'd sucking Children. 1736 W. Oldys Life W. Raleigh in W. Raleigh Hist. World I. 79 With all cruel immanity they subdued a naked and yielding people. 1796 W. Amphlett Triumphs of War 54 Every active courier brings some tale Of fresh immanity. 1837 Times 9 Oct. 5/4 These acts are but peccadilloes in comparison to the immanity of his conduct towards the population of these ill-fated provinces. 1898 Official Rep. 17th Internat. Christian Endeavour Convent. 85 War is barbarous immanity; it is feral madness. 2. Great size or severity; enormity, hugeness, immensity. rare after 17th cent.Frequently with reference to crime, pain, etc., and so overlapping with sense 1.The most recent examples of usage occur in discussions of Cicero. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > hugeness hugenessc1380 monstruousness1545 huginess1559 immanity1586 immenseness1610 immensity1652 enormity1792 colossality1800 enormousness1802 prodigiousness1832 gianthood1841 titanism1851 hugeousness1859 vastitude1876 jumboesqueness1882 monumentality1884 stupendiosity1912 1586 J. Prime Expos. St. Paul to Galathians v. 274 Neither brotherly affection, nor the immanity of the fact, nor the feare of God..could withhold him [sc. Cain] from committing the trespasse. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Immanitie,..hugenesse and greatnesse. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. ii. 62 Terrified with the vastnesse and immanity of these bodies [sc. elephants] which they had never before seene. 1652 H. Vaughan Mount of Olives 160 Nor any the most inward and tender parts were free from the anguish and immanity of the torment. 1663 A. Cowley Liberty in Ess. in Verse & Prose (1688) 81 If the immanity of so many Vices had not been covered and disguised. 1818 G. Ensor Inq. Population Nations v. 27 The Gauls also were tremendously numerous. Cicero speaks of their immanity and multitude. 1962 Phoenix 16 184 Cicero expatiated on..the immanity,..the totally exitial prodigiosity of the conspiracy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1539 |
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