单词 | querimonious |
释义 | querimoniousadj. 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 ΘΚΠ 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 ΚΠ 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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