单词 | jejuneness |
释义 | jejunenessn. The quality of being jejune. 1. Deficiency of (physical) substance; thinness, meagreness, attenuation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scantiness or meagreness scantnessc1386 parcity1509 tenuity1535 scantiness1567 bareness1580 barrenness1587 exiguity1604 leanness1612 meagreness1622 thinness1623 jejuneness1626 macilencya1631 narrowness1647 straitnessa1704 flimsinessa1763 threadbareness1771 poorness1782 skimpiness1879 threadbarity1892 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §799 The Ieiunenesse or extreme Comminution of Spirits. 1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 154 The grand and proxime Cause seems to be their jejuness and poverty of spirits. 2. Emptiness of interest or intellectually satisfying quality; baldness, meagreness, poverty. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > baldness poverty1597 jejunity1623 jejuneness1655 baldness1781 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. viii. 15 Many much admiring the jejunenesse of his discourse. 1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 48 The jejuneness and penury of our municipal law. 1886 W. Stubbs 17 Lect. Study Hist. xv. 339 The pages of the annalist, where there are any, are so dull that we scarcely complain of their jejuneness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1626 |
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