单词 | ironness |
释义 | ironnessn.ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [noun] > fact or condition of being clad in ironnessa1400 furniture1569 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7544 Qua-sa fightes in wrangwisnes, Him helpes noght his Irinnes. 2. Iron character, quality, or nature; strength, steeliness. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] > robustness hardishipa1250 stalworthnessa1340 stalworthinessa1387 pithc1395 hardinessc1405 robustness?1533 valiantness1553 validity1578 robustiousness1600 robustuousness1648 robusticness1676 robusticity1777 hardihood1780 ironness1803 induration1827 robustihood1834 stalwartness1859 1727 R. Greene Princ. Philos. Expansive & Contractive Forces v. ix. 705 Nor, because the Schools have Formed but a Few Abstract Names of Substances..does it Follow, that a Thousand more might not have been as Justly Adopted into Language, as Aureity, Ferreity, Lapideity, or Goldness, Ironness, Stoneness, &c. 1803 H. Swinburne Let. 25 Mar. in Courts Europe Close of Last Cent. (1841) II. 375 An ironness of constitution hammered when red-hot by adversity. 1899 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 15 June 1/5 It was strength and ironness of purpose which gave Rome her high position. 1907 Outlook 11 May 616/2 There is something more in character than wealth... It is fibre, moral and physical, ironness if you will. 1996 S. Holmes in M. Mandelbaum Postcommunism i. 51 The effectiveness of the state, after all, does not depend on the trouble it causes its neighbors or the ironness of its fist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400 |
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