beastlinessn.

Brit.

/ˈbiːs(t)lɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈbis(t)linᵻs/

Forms: Middle English beestelynesse, Middle English bestlynesse, Middle English bestylynesse, 1500s beestlynes, 1500s bestlynes, 1500s–1600s beastlines, 1500s–1600s beastlinesse, 1600s– beastliness; also Scottish pre-1700 baistlyness, pre-1700 beistlines.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: beastly adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < beastly adj. + -ness suffix.

a. The nature or qualities of a beast or animal; spec. lack of reason or intelligence; stupidity, brutishness.

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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality

beastlinessc1400

beastishness1530

beastlihead1579

bestiality1603

brutality1603

beastlihood1612

ferinenessa1676

doggishness1755

animalism1831

c1400 in T. F. Simmons Lay Folks Mass Bk. (1879) 122 What is he þat resceyueþ it [sc. the Eucharist]? soþely a man and no beeste..and alle beestelynesse of synne he owiþ to caste from hym.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKvi Beestlynes or rude maner.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 769 By their beastlinesse and lacke of consideracion, they had like to haue made all the armie flie.

1835 Boston Courier 17 Dec. 4/2 They are unavoidably grieved at the stupid beastliness of a vast portion of the mass of the people.

1995 New Republic 10 July 19/2 The question of the humanity of animals (their right to humane treatment) versus their animality (their mere beastliness) has been the essential bone of contention.

b. The state or condition of degradation or debasement; depravity; spec. brutal, cruel, or inhuman behaviour. Also: an instance of this.In early use often denoting violent or depraved behaviour arising as a result of drunkenness.

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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > perversity or depravity

wharfedlaikc1175

obliquity?c1425

turpitude1490

perversenessa1500

pravitya1513

pervertness1581

beastlinessa1618

depravedness1623

depravity1646

moral turpitude1660

depravation1728

miscreancy1804

pervertedness1828

obliqueness1877

a1618 W. Raleigh Instr. to Sonne & Posterity (1632) ix. 83 A Drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastlinesse.

1751 H. Walpole Let. 1 Apr. in Lett. to H. Mann (1834) II. 388 Whithed..had forgiven all his elder brother's beastliness.

1854 A. Duff in G. Smith Life A. Duff (1881) xxi. 342 Such drunkenness, such beastliness, such unblushing shamelessness.

1940 Nottingham Evening Post 10 Feb. 3/6 Mr. Herbert Morrison..said there could be ‘No compromise with the Nazi regime of barbaric beastliness and vindictive violence’.

1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Sept. 709/1 It is horrible above all because of the gratuitous beastlinesses—going far beyond the bounds of the harshest severity—inflicted by the French troops.

2004 Times 24 Mar. 19/3 I weep for the sorry spectacle of the Middle East in this spiral of inhuman beastliness.

†2. Sexual intercourse between a person and an animal; bestiality, or an instance of this. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > bestiality and zoophilia

buggery1533

beastliness1576

bestiality1576

bestialism1865

zoophilia1906

1576 J. Fouler tr. T. More Brief Fourme of Confession iii. f. 28^v If it be with a beast in any maner of wise, it is called the sinne of bestialitie or beastlines.

1677 Proc. Old Bailey 11 July. 3 One of the witnesses..saw her use such actions with a Dog as are not fit here to be recited..all saw her several times practising this beastliness.

1718 M. Malard French & Protestant Compan. 103/1 It is advantageous..especially against unnatural Sin, and the Sin of Beastliness [Fr. Bestialité].

1855 W. F. Atlee Nélaton's Lect. Surg. 48 He..confessed to have committed some beastliness with the animal, whose penis had entered the anus.

†a. A bestial habit, practice, or act; a vice; spec. a lustful or obscene sexual act. Obsolete.

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1579 S. Brinkley tr. G. Loarte Exercise Christian Life ix. f. 45^v Consider, howe ofte thou hast committed these carnalities and beastlines [1594 beastlinesses; It. bruttezze] through thy whole life.

1676 W. Wyatt Serm. to Scholars St. Paul's School 1 The practices of those sordid beastlinesses which deserve not a name among Mankind.

1820 Morning Post 4 Nov. 2/2 All the filthy beastlinesses sworn to by Sacchi to shock and disgust the feelings of the whole country.

1912 L. Woolf Lett. 29 Apr. in Lett. Leonard Woolf (1989) 174 I have faults, vices, beastlinesses but even with them I do believe you ought to marry me & be in love.

b. British slang. Esp. in British boarding schools for boys: sexual activity characterized as harmful, sinful, or unnatural; esp. homosexual sex; (also) masturbation. Now archaic and rare.

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1897 R. Kipling Slaves of Lamp in Cosmopolis Apr. 8 The Head never expels except for beastliness or stealing.

1910 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys (ed. 3) vi. 196 It [sc. masturbation] is called in our schools ‘beastliness’, and this is about the best name for it.

1914 R. Graves Let. 30 May in C. Tsuzuki Edward Carpenter (1980) xiii. 148 Mutual attractions..are quite spontaneous in nearly every case and not due either to force of example or to beastliness.

1968 Punch 27 Nov. 762/1 To test whether one of my dormitory mates was resisting beastliness, I placed a small explosive pistol-cap beneath the foot of his bed.

1997 T. Stoppard Invention of Love i. 7 Housman In fact, a hoop, a trochos, was a favourite gift given by a Greek man to the boy he, you know, to his favourite boy. Jackson Oh, beastliness, you mean?

a. Disgusting or dirty condition; foulness, filthiness. Now rare.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and loathsomeness

nastiness1611

fedity1657

beastliness1658

yuckiness1982

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1092 This [sc. lice infestation] proceeds from the beastliness of the people, and want of cleanly women to wash them is manifest.

1820 Lit. Chron. & Weekly Rev. 29 Apr. 277/1 Filth and beastliness assault you at every turn in their most loathsome and disgusting shapes.

1905 Imperial & Asiatic Q. Rev. July 373 No pig-sties or dog-kennels would be allowed to remain in England in such a condition of squalor, filth, and beastliness.

b. concrete. A nasty, noxious, or unpleasant-tasting substance. Now somewhat rare.

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1834 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 21 May 58/3 The ale too!..not the beastliness of these days.

?1889 C. J. Hyne Beneath your Very Boots xxix. 314 Radoa's invariable habit of ‘making a wet night of it’; sometimes on a decoction of fermented beastliness, the product of a Nrada still, but more often on a brand of good Scotch whiskey.

1920 R. K. Weekes Convict B14 iv. 32 ‘Your nerves must be in a bad way...’ ‘They are... You can give me something for them, if you like. I don't mind swallowing your beastlinesses’.

2002 Hansard Lords (Electronic ed.) 24 Sept. 993 He would have stopped piling up weapons of mass destruction, chemical nasties and biological beastlinesses.

5. colloquial (chiefly British). The quality of being very unpleasant, distasteful or objectionable; unpleasant nastiness or deliberate unkindness. Also: an instance of this.Especially in British use: now somewhat old-fashioned or humorous; sometimes regarded as characteristic of upper-class speech.

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1872 Genesee Valley (N.Y.) Free Press 28 Aug. The Waverly Enterprise wants Vice President Diven to put a stop to the ‘damnable barbarity and intense beastliness of the ordinary locomotive whistle’.

1915 Country Life 4 Dec. 7*/2 The manufacturer..would immediately respond to such suggestion by a liberal use of gold leaf, colour and a general efflorescence of minor beastlinesses, which would at once rob the car of its beauty.

1923 L. A. Harker Vagaries of Tod & Peter 60 He shall go into old Pig-Face's house, just to pay him out for all his beastliness to you.

1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xxiii. 229 We began, in the customary fashion, with a few words about the beastliness of the weather.

2014 P. Sussman Final Testimony Raphael Ignatius Phoenix x. 209 We had another lecture from Colonel Dishby about the rotten beastliness of persecuting a fellow prisoner.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	beastliness
释义	beastlinessn. Brit. /ˈbiːs(t)lɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈbis(t)linᵻs/ Forms: Middle English beestelynesse, Middle English bestlynesse, Middle English bestylynesse, 1500s beestlynes, 1500s bestlynes, 1500s–1600s beastlines, 1500s–1600s beastlinesse, 1600s– beastliness; also Scottish pre-1700 baistlyness, pre-1700 beistlines. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: beastly adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < beastly adj. + -ness suffix. 1. a. The nature or qualities of a beast or animal; spec. lack of reason or intelligence; stupidity, brutishness. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > animal sensuality beastlinessc1400 beastishness1530 beastlihead1579 bestiality1603 brutality1603 beastlihood1612 ferinenessa1676 doggishness1755 animalism1831 c1400 in T. F. Simmons Lay Folks Mass Bk. (1879) 122 What is he þat resceyueþ it [sc. the Eucharist]? soþely a man and no beeste..and alle beestelynesse of synne he owiþ to caste from hym. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKvi Beestlynes or rude maner. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 769 By their beastlinesse and lacke of consideracion, they had like to haue made all the armie flie. 1835 Boston Courier 17 Dec. 4/2 They are unavoidably grieved at the stupid beastliness of a vast portion of the mass of the people. 1995 New Republic 10 July 19/2 The question of the humanity of animals (their right to humane treatment) versus their animality (their mere beastliness) has been the essential bone of contention. b. The state or condition of degradation or debasement; depravity; spec. brutal, cruel, or inhuman behaviour. Also: an instance of this.In early use often denoting violent or depraved behaviour arising as a result of drunkenness. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > perversity or depravity wharfedlaikc1175 obliquity?c1425 turpitude1490 perversenessa1500 pravitya1513 pervertness1581 beastlinessa1618 depravedness1623 depravity1646 moral turpitude1660 depravation1728 miscreancy1804 pervertedness1828 obliqueness1877 a1618 W. Raleigh Instr. to Sonne & Posterity (1632) ix. 83 A Drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastlinesse. 1751 H. Walpole Let. 1 Apr. in Lett. to H. Mann (1834) II. 388 Whithed..had forgiven all his elder brother's beastliness. 1854 A. Duff in G. Smith Life A. Duff (1881) xxi. 342 Such drunkenness, such beastliness, such unblushing shamelessness. 1940 Nottingham Evening Post 10 Feb. 3/6 Mr. Herbert Morrison..said there could be ‘No compromise with the Nazi regime of barbaric beastliness and vindictive violence’. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Sept. 709/1 It is horrible above all because of the gratuitous beastlinesses—going far beyond the bounds of the harshest severity—inflicted by the French troops. 2004 Times 24 Mar. 19/3 I weep for the sorry spectacle of the Middle East in this spiral of inhuman beastliness. †2. Sexual intercourse between a person and an animal; bestiality, or an instance of this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > bestiality and zoophilia buggery1533 beastliness1576 bestiality1576 bestialism1865 zoophilia1906 1576 J. Fouler tr. T. More Brief Fourme of Confession iii. f. 28^v If it be with a beast in any maner of wise, it is called the sinne of bestialitie or beastlines. 1677 Proc. Old Bailey 11 July. 3 One of the witnesses..saw her use such actions with a Dog as are not fit here to be recited..all saw her several times practising this beastliness. 1718 M. Malard French & Protestant Compan. 103/1 It is advantageous..especially against unnatural Sin, and the Sin of Beastliness [Fr. Bestialité]. 1855 W. F. Atlee Nélaton's Lect. Surg. 48 He..confessed to have committed some beastliness with the animal, whose penis had entered the anus. 3. †a. A bestial habit, practice, or act; a vice; spec. a lustful or obscene sexual act. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1579 S. Brinkley tr. G. Loarte Exercise Christian Life ix. f. 45^v Consider, howe ofte thou hast committed these carnalities and beastlines [1594 beastlinesses; It. bruttezze] through thy whole life. 1676 W. Wyatt Serm. to Scholars St. Paul's School 1 The practices of those sordid beastlinesses which deserve not a name among Mankind. 1820 Morning Post 4 Nov. 2/2 All the filthy beastlinesses sworn to by Sacchi to shock and disgust the feelings of the whole country. 1912 L. Woolf Lett. 29 Apr. in Lett. Leonard Woolf (1989) 174 I have faults, vices, beastlinesses but even with them I do believe you ought to marry me & be in love. b. British slang. Esp. in British boarding schools for boys: sexual activity characterized as harmful, sinful, or unnatural; esp. homosexual sex; (also) masturbation. Now archaic and rare. ΚΠ 1897 R. Kipling Slaves of Lamp in Cosmopolis Apr. 8 The Head never expels except for beastliness or stealing. 1910 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Scouting for Boys (ed. 3) vi. 196 It [sc. masturbation] is called in our schools ‘beastliness’, and this is about the best name for it. 1914 R. Graves Let. 30 May in C. Tsuzuki Edward Carpenter (1980) xiii. 148 Mutual attractions..are quite spontaneous in nearly every case and not due either to force of example or to beastliness. 1968 Punch 27 Nov. 762/1 To test whether one of my dormitory mates was resisting beastliness, I placed a small explosive pistol-cap beneath the foot of his bed. 1997 T. Stoppard Invention of Love i. 7 Housman In fact, a hoop, a trochos, was a favourite gift given by a Greek man to the boy he, you know, to his favourite boy. Jackson Oh, beastliness, you mean? 4. a. Disgusting or dirty condition; foulness, filthiness. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and loathsomeness nastiness1611 fedity1657 beastliness1658 yuckiness1982 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 1092 This [sc. lice infestation] proceeds from the beastliness of the people, and want of cleanly women to wash them is manifest. 1820 Lit. Chron. & Weekly Rev. 29 Apr. 277/1 Filth and beastliness assault you at every turn in their most loathsome and disgusting shapes. 1905 Imperial & Asiatic Q. Rev. July 373 No pig-sties or dog-kennels would be allowed to remain in England in such a condition of squalor, filth, and beastliness. b. concrete. A nasty, noxious, or unpleasant-tasting substance. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1834 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 21 May 58/3 The ale too!..not the beastliness of these days. ?1889 C. J. Hyne Beneath your Very Boots xxix. 314 Radoa's invariable habit of ‘making a wet night of it’; sometimes on a decoction of fermented beastliness, the product of a Nrada still, but more often on a brand of good Scotch whiskey. 1920 R. K. Weekes Convict B14 iv. 32 ‘Your nerves must be in a bad way...’ ‘They are... You can give me something for them, if you like. I don't mind swallowing your beastlinesses’. 2002 Hansard Lords (Electronic ed.) 24 Sept. 993 He would have stopped piling up weapons of mass destruction, chemical nasties and biological beastlinesses. 5. colloquial (chiefly British). The quality of being very unpleasant, distasteful or objectionable; unpleasant nastiness or deliberate unkindness. Also: an instance of this.Especially in British use: now somewhat old-fashioned or humorous; sometimes regarded as characteristic of upper-class speech. ΚΠ 1872 Genesee Valley (N.Y.) Free Press 28 Aug. The Waverly Enterprise wants Vice President Diven to put a stop to the ‘damnable barbarity and intense beastliness of the ordinary locomotive whistle’. 1915 Country Life 4 Dec. 7/2 The manufacturer..would immediately respond to such suggestion by a liberal use of gold leaf, colour and a general efflorescence of minor beastlinesses, which would at once rob the car of its beauty. 1923 L. A. Harker Vagaries of Tod & Peter* 60 He shall go into old Pig-Face's house, just to pay him out for all his beastliness to you. 1995 B. Bryson Notes from Small Island (1996) xxiii. 229 We began, in the customary fashion, with a few words about the beastliness of the weather. 2014 P. Sussman Final Testimony Raphael Ignatius Phoenix x. 209 We had another lecture from Colonel Dishby about the rotten beastliness of persecuting a fellow prisoner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1400
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