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单词 simplety
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simpletyn.

Forms: Middle English sempylte, Middle English simplete, Middle English simplite, Middle English sympilte, Middle English symplete, Middle English symplyte, Middle English sympulte.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French simpleté.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French simpleté affability (late 11th cent. in a gloss in Rashi), innocence, sincerity, honesty (12th cent.), simple-mindedness (late 14th cent. or earlier) < simple simple adj. + -té -ty suffix1.
Obsolete.
Simplicity, esp. as a personal quality; humility, innocence, ignorance, etc.
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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).
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