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单词 boistness
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boistnessn.

Forms: late Middle English boystenesse.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: boistousness n.
Etymology: Apparently a variant of boistousness n., probably arising as an error for boystous stones (the reading of the a1398 manuscript version of the passage cited in quot. 1495).
Obsolete.
= boistousness n.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > coarse texture
boistousness1398
boistness1495
coarseness1541
coarse-grainedness1876
grossnessa1898
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. viii. sig. hhvi.v/2 Some suche [bodyes] letteth all passage of syghte, so that no thynge is seen there thurgh, As boystenesse, stones, trees and metall.
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