单词 | accommodableness |
释义 | † accommodablenessn. Obsolete. Ability to accommodate or be accommodated (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > adaptability to circumstances > [noun] accommodableness1663 adaptation1787 accommodativeness1834 appliancy1836 adaptivity1840 adaptativeness1841 adaptiveness1863 adjustment1881 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [noun] > obligingness or complaisance humouring1602 complacence1626 obligingness1638 complying1639 compliance1641 complacency1651 complaisance1651 accommodableness1663 obligation1664 complaisancy1710 prevenience1751 compliancy1765 prevenancy1768 prevenance1823 1663 J. Beale Let. 29 Sept. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 140 He undrstood [sic] the accomodablenes of Morleyes Contrivances. c1760 C. Talbot Ess. iii, in Wks. (1809) 83 Let me be allowed to make a new word, and let that word be accommodableness. 1784 J. Wesley Let. 28 June (1931) VII. 224 Accommodableness is only the art of becoming all things to all men without wounding our own conscience. 1848 ‘M. Monica’ Cottage Conversat. 2nd Ser. vi. 126 The great charm of the rosary is its variety and its accommodableness—that's a new word of my making. 1855 G. C. R. Changes of Admin. App. 24 Perhaps the cleanliness and useful accommodableness prevailing in the model lodging houses of the metropolis..had inspired him with the idea that the parties inhabiting there must be similarly respectable in themselves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1663 |
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