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单词 stathelness
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stathelnessn.

Forms: Old English staþolnes, Middle English staþelnes (northern), Middle English staþelnesse (northern).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: stathel v., staddle n., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < either stathel v. or staddle n. (compare forms at that entry) + -ness suffix. Compare stathelfastness n. at stathelfast adj. Derivatives.In later use rendering Latin substantia substance n. in various senses, including ‘material of which a thing is made, foundation, firmness, essential nature, person of the Trinity’. Compare also rare Old English mōdstaðolnes (also mōdstaðolfæstnes ) firmness of mind ( < mood n.1 + stathelness n.):OE Wulfstan Gifts Holy Spirit (Hatton) 188 And ongean modstaðolnysse [OE Corpus Cambr. 201 modstaðolfæstnesse] & modes strencðe..se manfulla deofol sendeð wacmodnesse.
Obsolete.
Something that is firm or offers a firm support; firmness; substance.In quot. OE apparently as a literal rendering of Latin firmamentum in the Vulgate (compare discussion at firmament n.).
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [noun] > firmness
stathelnessOE
sadnessa1398
firmitude?1541
firmness1653
OE Tiberius Psalter xviii. 2 Caeli enarrant gloriam dei et opera manuum eius annuntiat firmamentum : heafanas bodiað uel cyðað wuldor godes & weorc handa his bodiað staþolnesse [eOE Royal bodiaþ staðol uel trumnisse, OE Lambeth bodað uel cyð staðolfæstnysse uel roder].
c1350 in Anglia (1906) 29 406 (MED) O god in þrinnesse And þrinnes in onnesse Wurchip we..Ne þe hodes oht mengande, Ne þe staþelnes [L. substantiam] sondrande.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxxviii. 14 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 266 And þe staþelnes [L. substantia] ofe me In nethereste ofe erthe to be.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxviii. 2 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 199 I am festened in slime depe esse [perh. read depenesse; L. profundi], And es þare na staþelnesse [a1400 Egerton noht is staþelnes þat me mai kepe; L. non est substantia].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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