单词 | newfangleness |
释义 | newfanglenessn. Frequently depreciative. Now archaic, literary, and regional. = newfangledness n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > novelty or unusual character of something noveltya1387 newfanglenessc1395 newfanglednessa1542 newfanglement1798 c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 610 Men louen of propre kynde newfangelnesse [v.rr. newfangilnesse, newefangelnesse]. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 2092 (MED) Vnder floures depeint of stabilnes, Þe serpent dareth of newfongilnes. c1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 141 This fals Arcite, of his newfangelnesse [v.rr. newfangulnes, nuwefangulnesse, new-fanglesse, nyw fanglesse, newe fangellesse]..Tok lesse deynte of hir stidfastnesse. c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica ii. 76 They..sholde..absteyne from all newfanglenes. a1500 How Good Man taught his Son (Cambr.) l. 51 in Erlanger Beiträge zur Englischen Philol. (1889) 2 29 (MED) Let no newfangylnes the pleese, Oftyn to remeve nor to flytt. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 12 Other the kinges subiectes.., inclined to newfangilnes, haue spoken with the same Elizabeth. 1588 R. Bancroft Serm. at Paules Crosse 90 You through your rashnes in following of every spirit, are growen to a woonderfull newfanglenes. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints sig. Ov He was clad in strange accoustrements, Fashion'd with queint deuises neuer seene In Court before, yet there all fashions beene: Yet he them in newfanglenesse did pas. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iv. ii. §6. 137 This newfanglenesse proceedeth from an inconstant mind. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋16 A godly Father in the Primitiue time shewed himselfe greatly moued, that one of newfanglenes called κράββατον σκίμπους. 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. vi. 262 The old luxury of the Persians and the new fanglenes of the Macedons. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii. 11 Soon as his Newfangleness is gane, He'll look upon you as his Tether-stake. 1895 J. Tweeddale Moff xix. 181 A' the new fangleness was workin' off. 1965 ELH 32 1 (title) Tradition and newfangleness in Wyatt's ‘They fle from me’. 1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) i. 27 Newfangleness..and without meaning. Some new new nothing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1395 |
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