| 单词 | raciness of the soil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraciness of the soil b. raciness of the soil: a distinctive quality (in writing or speech), esp. one regarded as characteristic of a particular nation or people. Cf. racy of the soil at racy adj.1 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > mode of expression > of particular nation or people raciness of the soil1792 1792 A. Murphy Ess. on Life & Genius Dr. Johnson in S. Johnson Wks. I. 155 All of the essays..coming from the same fountain-head, no wonder that they have the raciness of the soil from which they sprung. 1822 I. D'Israeli Literary Char. (ed. 3) II. xxiii. 246 It is only that character which bears the raciness of the soil; it is only that impulse whose solitary force stamps the authentic work of genius. 1927 Enemy No. 2. 27 How far this essential romanticism can be weeded out of the raciness-of-the-soil of american [sic] creative writing, I do not know. 1943 F. Thompson Candleford Green (1945) xxxix. 554 Their talk had not lost the raciness of the soil and was seasoned with native wit which, if sometimes crude, was authentic. < as lemmas |
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