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单词 immanity
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immanityn.

Brit. /ɪˈmanᵻti/, U.S. /ᵻˈmænədi/
Forms: 1500s–1600s immanitie, 1500s– immanity.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin Etymon: Latin immānitās.
Etymology: < classical Latin immānitās savage character, brutality, frightfulness, enormity, vast size, hugeness < immānis immane adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare Middle French, French (rare) †immanité hugeness, immensity (c1508), cruelty, brutality (1543), Spanish inmanidad (a1428), Italian immanità (a1472).
Now rare.
1. Inhuman cruelty; savagery, brutality. Also: a cruel or savage act. Obsolete.
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).
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