单词 | simplety |
释义 | † simpletyn. Obsolete. Simplicity, esp. as a personal quality; humility, innocence, ignorance, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] simpletyc1225 nativeness1568 naturalness1656 inaffectation1658 unaffectedness1752 unsophistication1825 unsophisticatedness1858 wildness1887 c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 599 Simplete of semblant, buhsumnesse & stilðe. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job ii. 9 Ȝit forsothe thou abidist stille in thi symplete [L. simplicitate]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. 42 Þe þridde, of þe propirtees of þe resonable soule, touchinge þe simplete of his kynde and diuersite of vertues. c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 156 (MED) Wheþir þe ignoraunce be such þat þe doer knowiþ not þe deede to be viciose and synne for sympilte, [etc.]. ?a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Buik King Alexander the Conquerour (1986–90) l. 12731 We haue na ioy of superfluite, Bot ay content to liff in sympilte. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1225 |
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