单词 | riancy |
释义 | riancyn. Now rare. Bright or smiling character. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] blithenessc1000 blithec1400 cheerfulness1435 chertec1449 jocundness1482 hilarity1568 cheerliness1571 good humour1571 exhilaration1626 cheerishness1645 geniality1652 jocundry1655 cheeriness1658 brightness1660 shine1710 flow of spirits1716 sunshine1717 genialness1727 festiveness1777 sunniness1829 riancy1834 gleesomeness1847 Euphrasia1882 hilariousness1885 blithesomeness1886 gayness1896 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. ix, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 449/1 The tone, in some parts, has more of riancy, even of levity, than we could have expected. 1840 W. F. Pollock 26 June in Personal Remembrances (1887) 151 Fanny's flowers continue in beautiful order, and impart much riancy to my dusty chambers. 1896 A. Lynch Human Documents 227 The Indian writer has affinities with most of the great ones of English literature—the Keatsian touch of picturing, the riancy and verve of Burns, the bold limning strokes of Shakspere, the humour and pathos of Bret Harte. 1908 H. M. Sylvester Olde Pemaquid (1909) 112 The wild flowers that found within their verdancy an abundant riancy of form and color, unmatchable and fresh from the looms of Nature. 1964 Indian Lit. 7 ii. 83 His [sc. Kulbir Singh Kang's] sketches lack the latter's [sc. Balwant Gargi's] sublety, wit and riancy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834 |
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