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单词 strongness
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strongnessn.

Brit. /ˈstrɒŋnəs/, U.S. /ˈstrɔŋnəs/, /ˈstrɑŋnəs/
Forms: see strong adj. and -ness suffix; also late Old English stangnesse (dative, transmission error), Middle English strongnes, Middle English strongnez, Middle English stroungnesse.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: strong adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < strong adj. + -ness suffix. Compare strength n.
The quality or condition of being strong (in various senses), strength.In quot. OE in sense ‘force, violence’.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [noun] > quality of being strong
strongnesseOE
craftOE
strengthOE
stiffness1399
stoutnessc1440
fortitude1553
mightinessa1586
nervosity1611
brawninessa1680
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigour or intensity of action > force or intensity of operation or effect
strengthOE
forcec1320
vigour?a1445
forcibleness1563
accent1591
edgea1593
strongnessa1604
keenness?1606
forcefulness1825
power drive1927
kilowattage1935
wattage1964
welly1977
the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [noun] > capacity for moral effort or endurance
thildc950
strengthOE
dureec1330
rankc1400
tolerance1412
adamant1445
toleration1531
validity1578
durance1579
bent1604
strongness1650
duress1651
strength1667
durableness1740
stamina1803
willpower1842
backbone1843
thewness1860
sand1867
upbearing1885
wiriness1892
gut1893
sisu1926
eOE Royal Psalter: Canticles iii. 9 Quia non in fortitudine sua roborabitur uir : forðon na on strangnesse his bið strangod wer.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 16 Seo æ & witegan oð Iohannem, & of him is bodud Godes rice, & ealle on þæt strangnysse [L. vim] wyrcað.
lOE Canterbury Psalter lxvii. 36 Ipse dabit virtutem et fortitudinem plebis suae : he seleð megen & strangnesse folces his.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 317 Rigge boonys for her schortnes & for her strongnes ne ben not to-broke but if it be wiþ greet smytyng.
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 2189 Nowe Sampson,..for his grettest stroungnesse Prefigured Oure Lord Crist.
1538 tr. Erasmus Prepar. to Deathe sig. Aviv But few men haue this perfection and strongenes of mynde.
a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 133 In bewtie more excellent and abone all men in strangnes and habilietie.
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 122 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) When the fight is ended,..and all strongnesse of hostility set apart.
1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 212 There is no such thing as insensibility of pain; if there be, it is not a strongness of heart but a weaknesse of the minde.
1700 S. Patrick Comm. Fifth Bk. Moses xxviii. 507 The greatness and strongness of their various Plagues.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ in tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus Pref. p. xii The Strongness of our Author's Colouring.
1771 M. Peters Winter Riches 22 The strongness of the soil.
1813 E. Sampson Youth's Compan. (rev. ed.) 112 He [sc. the eagle] strongly resembles the lion..in the strongness of his breath.
1834 T. Arnold Serm. III. i. 8 Childhood, partly perhaps from the strongness of the contrast which it offers, we are apt to invest with a certain romantic and poetical interest.
1867 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 5 115 This species is distinguished from my L[emna] oligorrhiza by the greater number and strongness of the roots.
1916 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 197/1 Smoking is forbidden with a Teutonic strongness in the workshop.
1950 Life 2 Jan. 7/1 Finest American cotton is combed till only long, smooth fibers remain, giving sheets..extra strongness.
2006 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 17 Nov. 56 When I think about him it takes a bit of the strongness away, makes me go all hollow inside.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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