单词 | ourishness |
释义 | † ourishnessn. Obsolete. The quality of belonging to or of being connected with ourselves.In quot. 1860 with reference to Coleridge's use in quot. c1819. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1819 |
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