单词 | nicety |
释义 | nicetyn. I. Niceness, or an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] unwisdomc825 unredeeOE egedec1175 unwitc1175 unwisdomnessa1200 dusileca1225 dusischipa1225 folly?c1225 kangschipe?c1225 unwitshipa1250 unwisenessa1340 cornardy1340 unwithead1340 lewdness1362 nicetyc1380 sotie1390 folitya1400 follinessa1400 foolheada1400 insipiencec1422 fondnessa1425 wanwita1425 cocardyc1430 foltry1440 jopperyc1440 folliheada1450 fonning?a1475 niceheada1475 foltheadc1475 folabilitya1529 daftness1552 foolageness1563 foppery1592 guckry1596 senselessness1606 coxcombry1608 goosery1642 ineptitude1656 fopicalness1660 fopperishness1683 insagacity1808 spoonery1824 spooniness1824 noodleism1830 addle-headedness1835 foolishment1852 insapiency1876 ineptness1877 goosiness1888 inepticality1923 sappiness1943 gormlessness1958 c1380 G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale 463 O iuge, confus in thy nycetee, Wiltow that I reneye innocence? a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 176 (MED) It were a nycete To telle you hou that I fare. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 2636 (MED) I myȝt..ful wel marked be..of wilful nycete So folily to voyde away my grace. c1450 Cato's Distichs (Sidney Sussex) 108 in Englische Studien (1906) 36 10 (MED) For to trow oþer of þe More þan þiself is grete nicite [v.r. nycete]. 1532 Romaunt Rose in Wks. G. Chaucer f. cxxviii/1 Who so..weneth it be A jape, or els nycete [Fr. musardie] To wene that dremes after fal. c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1927) III. ii. 7993 To ly heir it war nyste. a. Licentiousness, lust. to use (also do) one's nicety: to satisfy one's lust. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] lustc1000 goleheada1325 luxury1340 luxurec1374 concupiscencec1386 gigletrya1387 nicetya1387 flesh-lusta1400 lovereda1400 sensualities1477 lascivity1490 lubricitya1492 libidinosity1509 luxuriousness1542 veneriousness1547 rammishness1552 luxe1558 ustion1559 lustinessa1575 luxurity1576 lusting1580 by-lusting1583 lasciviousness1590 lusciousness1594 epithymy1600 concupiscency1608 libidinousness1611 lustfulness1611 concupiscentiality1612 rampancy1652 venereousness1659 ustulation1660 lasciviency1664 salaciousness1727 lech1796 lustihood1798 randinessc1890 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 115 (MED) Meny of þe Iewes..made in Ierusalem hore houses and place for ȝongelynges to use here nysete ynne. c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 412 Thanne wolde I suffre hym do his nycetee. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) 3762 (MED) Plato..dwelte in wildernesse ffor to restreyne fleschely nycete. b. Foolish, wanton, or irresponsible conduct; (also) wickedness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [noun] goleshipc1000 golenessa1050 kaggerleȝcc1175 untowenshipa1250 follyc1300 wantonnessc1390 ragerya1393 nicetya1400 wantonhead1435 lightnessa1450 gole?a1500 free will?1518 nicenessa1533 looseness1576 licentiousness1586 waggishness1591 libertinage1611 libertinism1611 licence1713 fastness1859 permissiveness1946 a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 4719 Þe bysshope..seyd..Þat he ne shulde make hys nycete Before the graces of þe charyte. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 123 (MED) Þe kyng..chastised his meyne, & oþer afterward left of þer nycete. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 167 Litel sauour of holynesse.., but nycete & pleye & goynge to þe tauerne & oþere vanytes. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 1209 (MED) Hast þou, by malys or by nyste, I-made any mon dronke to be? c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 16 (MED) The stedfast observance of the good rulis..to kepe the ministres..from any breche, outrage, reproche, or nicetie..caused the..Quene to marvayle. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 17 (MED) The moderate rule and honeste of the churche turnith..in disordinaunce, nycete, and wantonnes. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > shyness or bashfulness > [noun] shamefastnessc1200 shamefulnessa1340 nicetya1387 scurna1400 bashednessc1440 bashfulness1539 nicenessc1550 shamefacedness1555 to lie aback1636 shyness1651 squeamishness1720 shrinkingness1835 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 227 Þe Romayns..chargede þe Britouns to leve of unmanhede and nysete [L. ignavia]. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 1288 Lat nycete [v.rr. nycite, nysete] nat do yow bothe smerte. a1500 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Harl. 3943) ii. 1286 Lete be ȝour nycete and ȝour foly And spekiþ wiþ hym in esyng of his hert. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. N8 So loue does loath disdainefull nicitee. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 162 Lay by all nicetie, and prolixious blushes That banish what they sue for. View more context for this quotation 1692 J. Dryden All for Love (new ed.) Pref. sig. Bv Nicety and affectation; which is no more but modesty deprav'd into a vice. 1765 W. Stevenson Orig. Poems II. 135 Fair Lucia, to no fortune born, Affects all nicety to scorn. Why should her virtue rigid prove? Why prove an enemy to love? 1810 I. Hart Gordian Knot v. i. 73 Why, will he eat us? Had he thought of harm, He would have offer'd it long since. Beshrew me, Your nicety is ill-timed. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] sleuthc888 sweernessc888 slacknessc897 unlustOE aswolkenessc1000 slothc1175 sweeringa1300 sloth-head1303 unlusthead1340 nicetya1387 sluggardy1390 sluggardness1398 nicehead1440 musardryc1450 slugnessc1450 lashness1477 sweerdomc1480 truantness1483 passibilityc1485 sleuthfulness1488 sluggardry1513 slothfulness1526 sluggardise1532 luskishness1538 desidiousnessa1540 ocivity1550 restiness?c1550 niceness1557 laziness1580 easinessa1586 poltroonery1590 facility1615 pigritude1623 pigrity1623 otiosity1632 easefulnessa1639 dronishness1674 reasiness1679 indolence1710 accidity1730 indolency1741 lurgy1769 donothingness1814 far niente1819 oisivity1830 donothingism1839 dronage1846 lotus-eating1852 faineance1853 faineancy1854 bummerism1858 lazyhood1866 bone-laziness1875 sleevelessness1882 bummery1887 sluggardliness1977 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 281 He was i-putte doun for grete nysete [?a1475 anon. tr. slawthe; L. inertiam]. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 355 Nycehede, or nycete, inercia. 5. a. Fine or delicate precision; accuracy, exactitude, minuteness. †after the nicety: precisely (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > careful exactness nicetya1393 featness1577 accurateness1611 accuracy1644 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [noun] nicetya1393 curiosityc1400 suretya1500 justness1533 preciseness1569 accurateness1611 punctuality1620 punctualness1620 mathematicality1641 accuracy1644 expressness1645 exactness1646 veracity1666 niceness1678 correctness1684 criticalness1693 precision1698 punctuosity1733 definitude1836 minutia1849 definition1866 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [noun] > degree of nicetya1393 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 462 (MED) That..maladie..is cleped Jelousie, Of which if I the proprete Schal telle after the nycete..A Fievere it is cotidian. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. N3 [Our kind of dancing is used] to show our actiuitie, agilitie and curious nicitie and to procure lustful looue. 1714 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements (rev. ed.) Pref. Some..may have demonstrated most of these Propositions with more nicety. 1723 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth (ed. 3) 204 With that exquisite Nicety as to express even the smallest and finest Lineaments of them. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 155. ⁋2 Those who can distinguish with the utmost nicety the boundaries of vice and virtue. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling ii. iv. 100 If it is a proper fly for the season, and you cast it with a nicety, the fish is your own. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xi. 81 Some nicety will be required in these operations. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 92 If the sea was running high the utmost nicety in steering..would be essential. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness i, in Youth 86 It was borne in upon me..with what extreme nicety he had estimated the time requisite. 1990 Ess. in Crit. 40 278 For nicety of phrasing, she yields nothing to Pope himself in these lines. b. to a nicety: precisely, exactly, as closely or completely as possible. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] > strictly strait1338 smally1340 at point devicec1390 point-devicec1425 precisely1526 to the point device1542 just1549 rigorously1561 by the square1570 curiously1573 by point device1575 in print1576 to a tittle1597 nicelya1616 to a hair's breadtha1616 point-vice1641 to a nicka1680 to a cow's thumb1681 to a tee1693 narrowly1708 scrupulously1712 to a dot1728 perjinkly1775 to a nicety1795 astringently1866 to a fit1890 1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. iii. 27 To a nicety, he has prov'd himself the greatest Mathematician o'th' Age. 1712 W. Oldisworth tr. Horace Odes III. xv. 23 You to a Nicety can tell, When Codrus for his Country fell. 1740 Friedrich Let. in T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia (1862) III. xi. iii. 64 All was arranged and concerted to a nicety. 1795 E. Burke Lett. in Wks. IX. 418 These things play the Jacobin game to a nicety. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iii. 14 Fitting on his gloves to a nicety. 1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 3/2 (advt.) One that fits to a nicety the breast-pocket of a uniform. 1955 M. Wheeler Still Digging (1958) 146 We struck the beach fairly and squarely. Spriggs, RNR, had brought us in to a nicety. 1986 A. Harding Also Georgiana (1988) v. 73 Drapes correctly hung, their folds calculated to a nicety to suggest the acceptable degree of luxury. ΚΠ 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in his Senses (new ed.) vi. sig. B Nic..calculated the Acres and Roods to a great Nicety. 1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 114 They would be able to a very great Nicety to ascertain the absolute Velocity of Electricity. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 127 The pendulum affords a means of subdividing time to an almost unlimited nicety. 1880 T. Hardy Trumpet-major II. xvi. 20 The sun shone occasionally into Matilda's face..its rays picking out all her features to a great nicety. a. Excessive refinement or extravagance in dress or manner of living. Also: cleverness, craftiness. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [noun] > excessive refinement nicety?c1450 superfineness1681 ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 165 I Shall tell you..of a knightes doughter that lost her mariage bi her nisite. c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 178 (MED) Suche maner of people ought to be honorabill, wyse, and of fayre porte, clothed in honeste araye withoute disgysyng or nycete. ?1510 Treatyse Galaunt (de Worde) sig. Aijv The noble course of nature nycete hath deuoured. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 87v The robe or cope, and the tubbe of Diogenes, did..vpbraide to the riche and welthie folkes their nycytee and their delices. 1604 B. Jonson Particular Entertainm. at Althrope 7, in His Pt. Royall Entertainem. In his Garbe he sauors Little of the nicety, In the sprucer Courtiery. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 76 Pride and Ignorance..preferring nicity before health. b. Luxury, self-indulgence. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [noun] softnessOE voluptuositya1380 voluptuoustya1382 delicacya1393 deliciousnessa1500 volupteousness1526 niceness1540 nicety1542 wealiness1545 luxe1558 voluptibility1631 luxury1633 voluptuousness1652 volupté1712 decadence1882 gracious living1892 vie de luxe1920 good life1937 dolce vita1961 sweet life1962 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 104v To an ethnike philosophir it seemed nycitee..ye an ethnike or gentile should haue his shooes dooen on by his seruaunte. 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 22 If we sleep, tis rather out of too much nicety than of necessity. 7. a. Delicacy of feeling, sensibility; scrupulosity, punctiliousness; an instance of this, a scruple. Formerly also: †excessive delicacy (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] feeling?c1400 tendernessc1440 heart1557 nicety1583 toucha1586 apprehension1605 tender-heartedness1607 sensibility1609 sensibleness1613 acuteness1644 exquisiteness1650 susceptivity1722 sensation1744 soul1748 susceptibility1753 sensitivity1773 sensitiveness1788 affettuoso1791 sensibilité1817 soulfulness1842 mild-heartedness1849 susceptiveness1873 sensitivism1877 tender-mindedness1907 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [noun] > seemly behaviour or propriety > strict decorum formc1405 galancie1581 ceremoniousness1583 punctilio1596 formality1599 ceremony1603 punctuality1618 punctillea1648 complementalness1657 formalness1684 punctiliousness1685 nicety1693 ceremonial1749 square-toedness1846 punctiliosity1859 uptightness1969 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. D The Emperour perceyuing his sonns nicetye, stood not to debate the matter with excuses, but incontynentlye, fetchynge a bagg of goolde ont of his closet, helde it to his sonns nose. 1640 H. Glapthorne Ladies Priviledge ii. sig. Di But at the minute, reason may dispense Twixt us with such a nicety. a1680 S. Butler Satires & Misc. Poetry & Prose (1928) 89 His slipp'ry Conscience..will not endure the gentlest Check, But at the slightest Nicety grows queasy. 1693 G. Stepney tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires viii. 157 Nay when his Year of Honour's ended, soon He'll leave that nicety, and mount at Noon. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 97. ⁋2 It prevail'd only among such as had a Nicety in their Sense of Honour. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 196 As there was no other bed-chamber in the house, the hostess, without much nicety, led them into mine. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 20 A fanciful nicety it was on the part of my..friend. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. iv. 179 He had declined taking orders, from nicety of religious scruple. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 230/1 He exhibits a constant fear lest the nicety of his aesthetic understanding..be stunted by the commonplace matter. 1988 J. Bayley Short Story ii. 57 The story..picks its way with the most tacit nicety between true emotions. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > scrupulous care or attention to detail chariness1571 minuteness1640 exactness1645 particularity1669 nicety1711 exactitude1735 narrowness1817 particularness1859 scrupulousness1863 detail1868 scrupulosity1879 meticulosity1887 meticulousness1909 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 120. ¶14 With how much Nicety and Attention does she [sc. the Hen] help the Chick to break its Prison? 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 387 The Houses of the great Turkish Ladys are kept clean with as much nicety as those in Holland. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. iii. 310 A bird, that chooses with such care and nicety the place and materials of her nest. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [noun] curiosityc1386 delicacya1393 curiousnessc1440 delicatesse1509 delicateness?1529 daintethness1548 exquisiteness?c1550 over-curiousness1573 featness1577 daintiness1579 dainty1590 finicality1594 niceness1604 squeamishness1654 fastidiousness1661 choicenessa1665 overnicety1664 finicalness1675 hypercriticism1678 overniceness1694 nicety1723 over-delicacy1745 daintihood1780 finickiness1833 finicism1844 over-criticism1859 overfineness1859 particularness1859 faddiness1865 finicking1869 picksomeness1881 pernicketiness1890 perfectionism1937 choosiness1945 pickiness1952 1723 R. Steele Conscious Lovers i. i What is it all of a sudden offends your Nicety at our House? 1723 W. Meston Knight i. 21 Since he got them in a Token; He had more Manners, than to view them With Nicety. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. xix. 239 My own nicety, and the nicety of my friends, have made me..an idle, helpless being. We never could agree in our choice of a profession. View more context for this quotation 1816 J. Austen Emma II. xviii. 337 Selina says it [sc. sleeping at an inn] is quite a horror to her—and I believe I have caught a little of her nicety . View more context for this quotation ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > delicacy of subtletya1450 subtility1494 election1531 fineness1561 finesse1564 delicacy1678 subtlety1728 nicety1780 subtleness1872 1780 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) IV. 342 Sir, I beg to have your judgment, for I know your nicety. 8. a. The quality of requiring careful consideration or handling; delicacy, intricacy, subtlety. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or delicacy kittleness1578 ticklishness1583 trickleness?1605 niceness1608 nicety1707 delicacy1753 subtlety1815 tricksiness1888 1707 London Gaz. No. 4330/2 A Thing of too great Nicety and Difficulty to be accomplish'd in any other..Reign. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. i. 103 The orthodox began to divide upon questions of great nicety. 1812 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 45 The learned judge told the jury that this was a case of great nicety. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. iv. 174 The question..is one of considerable nicety and difficulty. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 99 Matters of the utmost depth and nicety. 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 28/1 The matching of the fly with the insect on the water is a matter of much nicety, for the water-flies are of many shades and colours. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or delicacy > a difficult or delicate matter or task nicety1725 egg-dance1801 hot brick1865 hot potato1952 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [noun] > point of nicety1725 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iii. 33 The nicety of writing in business, consists chiefly, in giving every species of goods their trading names. 1827 D. Johnson Sketches Indian Field Sports (ed. 2) 72 The great nicety is, to fix the bow, so that the arrow may fly quite horizontally. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 290 Few of the scale makers, it seems, of his day, knew in what the nicety of a balance consists. II. A nice thing, utterance, etc. Chiefly in plural. 9. a. Something choice, elegant, or dainty; a luxury. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > [noun] > instance of nicetya1450 galancie1581 nicery1605 refinement1683 delicacy1728 a1450–1500 ( Libel Eng. Policy (1926) 18 (heading) The commodites and nycetees of Venicyans and Florentynes. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 56 (MED) Men noriche lordes sones in delites and nycetes as sone as thei be borne. 1611 B. Rich Honestie of Age (1844) 15 Some foolish nicities that were vsed amongst women in his time. 1626 R. Bernard Isle of Man i. 71 The fourth is the doore of Smelling; at this enter in foolish Niceties, Perfumings, and other allurements to daliance. 1675 A. Huyberts Corner-stone 16 The new Nicities serve for nought but ostentation and discourse. 1719 Free-thinker No. 118. 2 Mr. Gibbons could not have carved his Niceties with a Hatchet. 1756 W. Dodd Nature of Fasting (ed. 2) 9 Solicitous about the niceties and gayeties of dress. 1835 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 22 June in Amer. Notebks. (1972) i. 7 Clean linen and other niceties of apparel. 1950 R. Macaulay World my Wilderness ii. 11 An ardent and delighted reaction towards the exquisite niceties of civilisation. b. Something nice or dainty for eating. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > delicacy or titbit daintethc1290 daintyc1300 morselc1390 confection1393 delicec1405 delicacya1425 delicatea1475 friandise1484 deliciositiesa1500 daintive1526 junket1538 knack1548 daintrel1575 cate1578 pulpament1600 gaudy1622 regalo1622 daint1633 titbita1641 scitament1656 regale1673 knick-knack1682 nicety1704 bonne bouche1721 diablotin1770 sunket1788 regalement1795 confiture1802 bon-bon1821 sock1825 delicatessen1853 good things1861 tiddlywinks1893 1704 B. Mandeville Æsop Dress'd 3 They'll give you hundred Niceties, As Chicken Bones, boyl'd Loins of Mutton, As good as ever Tooth was put in. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Niceties, in the plural, is generally applied to dainties or delicacies in eating. a1779 D. Garrick Poet. Wks. (1785) I. 120 Say but you're tir'd with boil'd and roast at home, We too can send for nicities from Rome. 1793 Friendly Addr. Poor 13 Niceties do little towards filling the bellies of a hungry family. 1825 L. L. Cameron Honest Penny 7 There were stuck up for sale apples, oranges, mintcakes, tarts, and many niceties of the same sort. 1895 G. Roy Generalship 7 The night o' the pairty comes, an' I had a' my bits o' niceties laid out. 1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 20 Feb. b8/4 American Airlines has started slicing melons rather than cubing them... Other labor-intensive niceties like radishes cut into a rose shape have been eliminated. 10. a. A fine or minute distinction; a subtle point or refinement. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > subtle point subtletya1425 subtilityc1485 jimp?a1500 nicety1589 nicery1605 fineness1622 pointille1626 measuring cast1631 criticisma1640 exility1642 subtilty1681 quoddity1682 nuance1781 distinguo1895 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 210 The terme, though not greatly pertinent to the matter, yet not vnpleasant to know for them that delight in such niceties. 1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 55 The Court would not rayse nycities out of the pardon and frame a third offence. 1652 R. Saunders Balm Ep. Ded. 2 When Satan is so busie..there is no time to stick at nicities. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 63 There's no standing upon Niceties..with Fellows that have the Constitution of a Horse. 1788 E. Burke Impeachm. W. Hastings in Wks. XIII. 6 Not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence, but upon the enlarged..principles of state morality. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1851) 295 These were niceties for which the audience cared little. 1880 T. A. Spalding Elizabethan Demonol. 16 Until the masses are more educated in theological niceties than they are at present. 1952 W. Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 110 Light and shade, the niceties of intonation, inflection, modulation, etc., in the reading of a part. 1995 C. R. B. Dunlop Creditor-Debtor Law in Canada (ed. 2) ix. 261 The third and subsequent writs are traditionally called pluries writs although this nicety may be disappearing. b. A minute point or detail; a point or feature in which great accuracy or skill is involved. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being specific or detailed > a detail or particular > minute minutea1450 quidlibet1611 punto1623 punctilio1631 nicety1649 punctuality1661 minutiae1797 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xv. 141 Above these twenty yeares hath bin ruining the people about the niceties of his ruling. 1699 J. Pomfret Dies Novissima 36 'Tis not for you to ask, nor mine to say, The niceties of that tremendous day. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. viii. 229 It will not be worth my Pains..to enter into the Niceties of this Controversy. 1775 S. Johnson Let. 17 June (1992) II. 226 Her present qualifications for the niceties of needlework, being dim eyes and lame fingers. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. i. 12 In the present state of philology, there is incomparably more knowledge of grammatical niceties. 1875 Chambers's Jrnl. 23 Jan. 54 Young women..do not know the niceties of legal proof. 1925 W. Cather Professor's House i. vi. 78 She had always been fastidious to an unreasonable degree about small niceties of deportment. 1990 World Outside: Career Guide 36/1 Some banks have employed physicists to handle the mathematical niceties. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [noun] > a doubt, scruple were1338 doubtc1374 incertainty1483 scruple1534 dubitation1545 scrupulosity?a1562 irresolution1592 suspense1594 non liquet1656 nicety1694 reservation1719 hows and whys1726 dubiety1807 1694 in J. Aubrey Misc. (1696) 162 Nay, (says the Fellow) give over these Niceties, for he will be your first Husband. 1719 E. F. Haywood Love in Excess ii. 27 The Letter..at length Triumph'd over all the little niceties and objections my Charmer made against our Journey. 12. A minor aspect of polite social behaviour; a detail or formality of etiquette. ΚΠ 1931 Amer. Mercury Jan. 50/2 The master, about fifty years old, a veteran Ichabod in pedagogy..began the day without any get-together niceties. 1969 C. Bukowski Days run away like Wild Horses iii. 141 To have any of these [women] would take weeks and months Of torture—introduction, niceties, conversation that Cleaves the soul like a rusty axe—no, no, god damn it! no more! 1986 C. Gebler August in July (1987) 10 Despite the young man having been asked to leave, the proper niceties were being observed. 1994 Reminisce July 6/3 Eventually they got around to business, but only after the niceties had been covered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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