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单词 naturesse
释义

naturessen.

Brit. /ˌnatʃᵿˈrɛs/, /ˌnatjᵿˈrɛs/, /ˌnatʊˈrɛs/, U.S. /ˌnætʃəˈrɛs/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French naturesse.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman naturesse, naturesce good nature, kindliness (12th cent.), affection, natural feeling (14th cent. or earlier) < nature nature n. + -esse -ess suffix2.
Now historical and rare.
A generous act, generosity; natural affection or feeling.
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the mind > emotion > love > affection > [noun] > natural affection or feeling
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naturalness1556
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c1439 in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) I. 184 (MED) We conceyvyth that your naturesses and benevolence shold enjoy with us of the fortheraunce of the sayde Universite.
c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 771 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 511 His herte was meevyd of oold naturesse To save his freend.
1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 62 With wordes peteous and mothers naturesse.
1994 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 55 378 Contemporaneous with John of Gaunt's aristocratic concept of gratitudio and ‘naturesse’, William Langland's elaborations of ‘kyndenesse’ [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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