单词 | outrecuidance |
释义 | outrecuidancen. Now rare. Excessive self-esteem; overweening self-confidence; arrogance, presumption; conceit. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [noun] presumptiona1250 overweena1300 jollitya1340 overweening1340 overhopec1390 surfeitryc1425 presumptuousnessa1450 outrecuidance?c1450 sauciness1534 presumptiousness1550 presume1590 confidence1597 assuming1602 self-assumption1609 overweeningness1621 self-assuming1644 assumingnessa1832 assumptiousness1870 hubris1884 hybris1920 ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 87 (MED) A mon..was hanged atte his yate, and his seuene children, and all thorugh his pride and oultrecuydance. ?c1475 ( in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 584 The levynge of soche alliaunces is done of grete pride and outrecuidaunce, and setting noo store be none othere mannes frenshipe. 1496 Epit. Iaspar Late Duke of Beddeforde (Pynson) sig. aivv Sore may thou rue thy vtterquidaunce. 1524 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 255 She shal remayne in over-moche estymacion and oultrecuidance of her self. 1541 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VIII. 545 He made..protestation, that the same..passed him..only uppon wilfulness and ultraquidance, which he confessed had been in him. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ii. 10 To such an outrecuidance hath your selfe-conceit caried you. 1631 E. Stanhope Let. in Hist. Jrnl. (1964) 7 313 Alass, why doe thinke out of an outrequodance that you are able to cast such a fogg, such a myst before the eyes of all men? a1652 R. Brome Madd Couple Well Matcht i. i, in Wks. (1873) I. 5 Therein was your outrecuidance. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. x. 191 It is full time..that the outrecuidance of these peasants should be restrained. 1867 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags ii The light fell full on his handsome face, with its fair hue and its gentle languor on which there was not a single trace of the outrecuidance attributed to him. 1888 Sat. Rev. 18 Aug. 195/2 Admiral Hornby has rebuked the outrecuidance of Englishmen who seemed to think so. 1919 Times 16 Aug. 14/1 At first he thought that the original clause was inserted by the majority of the House of Commons out of pure arrogance and outrecuidance and a determination to stamp upon Church feeling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1450 |
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