单词 | strongness |
释义 | strongnessn. The quality or condition of being strong (in various senses), strength.In quot. OE in sense ‘force, violence’. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.eOE |
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