单词 | mereness |
释义 | merenessn.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > [noun] freshnessa1398 sweetnessc1400 purity?1440 pureness1528 mereness1648 sterility1877 drivenness1894 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Louterheydt, purety, Meerenesse, or Cleanenesse. 2. The state or quality of being merely something, or of being small or insignificant (cf. mere adj.2 5c). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > little importance or triviality simpleness1440 toyousness1581 triflingnessa1586 triviality1598 pusillage1610 inconsiderableness1646 shrimpishness1651 unsignificancy1659 trivialnessa1687 no great things1776 cobwebbery1837 mereness1909 picayunity1948 1909 Mind 18 54 All that is thus removed is at most, we may say, the mereness of immediacy. 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 193/3 Your reviewer..and others have made something of the fact that Bevin used to refer to Lord Attlee as the Little Man. Lloyd George's colleagues used exactly the same phrase about him: both Prime Ministers lacked inches. Is it wise to see a value judgment in this statement of physical mereness? 1966 W. V. Quine in Jrnl. Philos. 63 658 The word ‘concept’, which Russell applied to these nonexistents, connotes mereness. a1995 D. Davie Poems (1996) 40 The mereness of him, of his or of any childhood in those years and for people of our rank is hard to imagine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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