单词 | opiniativeness |
释义 | opiniativenessn. Now rare. Obstinate adherence to one's own opinion; opinionatedness. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > stubbornness in opinion self-judgement1525 self-opinion1553 opiniatrety1577 opiniastretyc1598 opinionativeness1599 opiniativeness1611 opiniastrya1643 opiniateness1645 opiniatrecy1649 opiniatry1651 opinionastry1655 opinionatedness1662 self-opiniativeness1674 opiniousness1688 opiniatreness1689 opinionatry1689 opinionatre1693 opiniatreture1699 opiniatreship1704 pragmaticism1865 self-opinionedness1879 opinionation1919 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Opiniastreté, opiniatiuenesse. a1618 W. Raleigh Cabinet-council (1658) xiv. 34 The first obstacle to good Counsel is Pertinacy or Opiniativeness. 1715 tr. Thomas à Kempis Christian's Exercise iii. xviii. 154 To speak..with Opiniativeness is the Part of one that is a Stranger to Wisdom. 1807 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. III. 363 I am..not surprised with the opiniativeness of Lord Grenville. 1877 Victoria Mag. May 47 Thence we may trace the rise of a somewhat exalted self-conceit, and of a stubborn opiniativeness. 1916 H. G. Wells Mr. Britling sees it Through i. i. 10 Mr. Direck had read a very great deal of all this expressed opiniativeness of Mr. Britling. 1958 K. W. Morgan Islam vi. 241 In this new nationalism the two movements meet in unison and harmony without secular nationalist opiniativeness or religious rigidity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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