单词 | ordinariness |
释义 | ordinarinessn. The quality or condition of being ordinary; usual or commonplace character; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > quality of being commonplace or undistinguished ordinarinessa1617 vulgarity1646 greyness1663 commonness1779 commonplaceness1808 commonplace1842 commonplaceism1851 a1617 S. Hieron Doctrines Triall in Wks. (1620) II. 8 Let profanenesse and poperie cast reproches vpon diligence and ordinarinesse. a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) xv. 444 Whereas the persons, yet under reproof, are wont to pretend..lowness and ordinariness of matter, or of teaching, in the Ministry which they have a mind to quit. 1754 F. Warner Illustr. of Bk. Common Prayer Trinity 1 They have these Rules of Life before them, but they are not so thoroughly affected by them as they ought, the Ordinariness of the Means wearing off the Regard which is due to them. 1807 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 24 332 An idiomatic ordinariness of diction, which has been praised for its simplicity. 1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 247 The eight verses work through a variety of ordinarinesses to the final. 1900 Examiner 21 June 327/2 The man in the street..may be a very excellent person, but his very ordinariness puts a long way between him and an ample and distinguished manhood. 1999 Church Times 24 Sept. 32/3 The ordinariness of their faces and the enormity of their crimes fail to jell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1617 |
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