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单词 querimonious
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querimoniousadj.

Brit. /kwɛrᵻˈməʊnɪəs/, U.S. /ˌkwɛrəˈmoʊniəs/
Forms: 1600s queremonious, 1600s– querimonious.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: querimony n., -ous suffix.
Etymology: < querimony n. + -ous suffix. Compare post-classical Latin querimoniosus (a636 in Isidore, rare; 12th cent. in British sources), Middle French querimonieux (second half of the 15th cent. in an apparently isolated use).
Prone to complaint; complaining, querulous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adjective] > complaining > peevishly or querulously
girning1447
querulousc1475
quarrellous1490
whining15..
wailish?1548
querimonious1604
whinging1720
peeping1786
honing1802
whiny1854
Peter Grievous1875
grizzly1900
bellyaching1931
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Querimonious, full of complaining, and lamentation.
1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses xxxvii. sig. K 5 Querimonious paines Doe puluerise the concaue of my braines.
1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son: 2nd Pt. §38. 111 Querimonious accusations of his best Servants.
1791 J. Collinson Hist. & Antiq. Somerset III. 608 It was on this solitary island that Gildas..composed his querimonious treatise.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 242 Its elegiac delicacy and querimonious plaintiveness.
1848 J. B. Mozley Luther in Ess. (1878) I. 354 That passionate and querimonious temper.
1890 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 11 3 A poet..would seriously damage the unity of effect..if he allowed his invective to subside into a querimonious love-complaint.
1927 Hispania 10 450 Querimonious attacks [on Spanish in American education] may still occur from time to time.
1999 Jrnl. Mammalogy 80 577/1 The build-up [sc. of a badger's snarl] was of the harmonic type and was continuous, querimonious and drawn-out, produced by an unrestrained outburst of air.

Derivatives

queriˈmoniously adv. rare
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [adverb]
plainandly?c1450
repiningly1571
gruntingly1611
complainingly1626
querimoniously1649
groininglya1656
growlingly1803
grumblingly1836
murmuringly1866
grouchily1906
bitchingly1970
1649 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 45 sig. Lll3 The Guerdon of their Actions, was menaced to be rendred to them..which..will, I say, doe that freely, they are constrained querimoniously to expresse so fearfully.
1913 R. Ellis Second Bk. Ovid's Tristia 5 Death found him still querimoniously harping on his misfortunes.
queriˈmoniousness n. rare
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Querimoniousness.
1895 W. R. Cobbe Doctor Judas viii. 107 The Jack-o'-lantern sprites are succeeded by devils of querimoniousness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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