单词 | narrow-heartedness |
释义 | narrow-heartednessn. Meanness, lack of generosity; pusillanimity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > [noun] narrow-mindedness1646 parvanimitya1691 narrowness1697 narrow-spiritedness1709 little-mindedness1767 narrow-mindeda1774 contraction1775 illiberality1775 smallness1813 illiberalism1839 narrow-heartedness1850 single-track mind1919 tunnel vision1949 1850 Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. in Littell's Living Age 1 June 424 Folly and narrow-heartedness in one priest are counterbalanced by the wisdom and charity of another. 1878 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David V. Ps. cviii. 5 David had none of..the narrow-heartedness of some nominal Christians. 1904 Econ. Jrnl. 14 192 It engenders a general spirit of national narrow-heartedness..setting up the object of pitting the strength of each nation against every other. 1956 A. Gurard Life & Death of Ideal 306 Members of all classes evinced the narrow-mindedness and narrow-heartedness that precipitated the disaster. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1850 |
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