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单词 ourishness
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ourishnessn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: our pron. and adj., -ish suffix1, -ness suffix.
Etymology: < our pron. and adj. + -ish suffix1 + -ness suffix.
Obsolete.
The quality of belonging to or of being connected with ourselves.In quot. 1860 with reference to Coleridge's use in quot. c1819.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > [noun] > individuality or selfhood > self > fact of being peculiar to oneself
properheadc1450
ownness1642
ourishnessc1819
c1819 Coleridge's Lect. 1808–1819 on Lit. (1987) II. 363 There is a sort of unhired fidelity, an our ishness about it that makes it rest pleasant in one's feelings.
1860 K. H. Digby Evening on Thames I. 320 There is a sort of ourishness, to use a word of Coleridge's, in the way that some people speak of the country or town they live in.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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