单词 | presumptuousness |
释义 | presumptuousnessn. The quality of being presumptuous, presumption; groundless self-confidence; excessive forwardness; arrogance, impertinence. 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 a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 2810 Ny suche presumpsuisnas vpone here take. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 7975 (MED) The proude pharysee..off hih presumptuousnesse, He shewede out hys Ryghtwysnesse. a1500 Promptorium Parvulorum (King's Cambr.) 412 Presumptuowsnes, presumptuositas. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Sam. xvii. 28 I knowe thy presumptuousnesse well ynough, and the wickednesse of thine hert: for thou art come downe to se the battayll. 1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros iv. xii. 85 His heedlesse good and steepe presumptuousnesse. a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor ix. i. 39 in Five New Playes (1659) 'Tis upon that, Sir, I would speak Sir, hoping That you will pardon my presumptuousness, I am a Mother that do lack a service. 1688 J. Bunyan Good News for Vilest of Men 116 This presumptuousness is a very heinous thing in the eyes of God. 1757 J. Byng Admiral Byng’s Def. 9 Where nothing is to be gained, and all may be lost, Fighting becomes Presumptuousness, Rashness or Phrenzy. 1799 R. Walker Mem. of Med. vi. 207 The futility and ill effects of transfusion, soon proved the presumptuousness of attempting to dispense with those invariable laws. 1802 Edinb. Rev. 1 201 It seems to be the business of philosophy..to restrain the presumptuousness of the theorist. 1857 C. M. Sedgwick Married or Single? i. 20 Was it a God of love and mercy who thus visited the rashness, ignorance, presumptuousnessof a girl of seventeen? 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 425 One thing..may be asserted without presumptuousness. 1927 Times 15 Dec. 18/4 The film can leave no more lasting impression than that of the sickly presumptuousness of its author. 1975 F. Heer Charlemagne & his World xi. 166 It is easy, in retrospect, to mock at the presumptuousness of comparing a semi-barbarian court with the Athens of Pericles or Plato. 2002 Church Times 30 Aug. 17/2 Job's confession is not for overt or secret sins, but for presumptuousness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1450 |
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