单词 | superbity |
释义 | superbityn. Now archaic. Pride, arrogance.In quot. 1903 concrete: an embodiment of this, a proud person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > [noun] prideOE overgartc1175 surquidrya1250 stuntisea1327 arrogance1340 insolencec1386 surquidyc1407 succudryc1425 lordliness1440 arrogancy1477 ogartc1480 wantonness?a1505 stateliness1509 insolencya1513 surquidancea1525 superbityc1540 imperiousness1582 surliness1587 super-arrogation1593 insolentness1594 assumption1609 self-assumption1609 huff1611 imperiosity1618 superarrogancy1620 lordship1633 self-assuming1644 alazony1656 high-handednessa1658 fast1673 arrogantness1756 overbearance1766 swaggera1821 huffishness1841 you-be-damnedness1885 high and mighty1924 the mind > emotion > pride > [noun] > proud person proudOE proud-heartc1400 prouder1565 pajock1604 proudling1612 prideling1825 superbity1903 c1540 Image Ipocrysy ii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 423 And eke it is forbode That he no novice be, Lest with superbite He do presume to hye. 1653 R. Saunders Treat. Moles Body Man & Woman 7 in Physiognomie In a woman it denotes superbity, and an elated minde. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 117 In all his Actions and Discourse [he] manifested a most insupportable Superbity. 1701 tr. Refl. Present Interests Several Courts Christendom 25 He..put on the Garment of Ecclesiastical Superbity. 1805 A. Serle Charis (ed. 2) 205 Alas! the soul continues..going on in a high and pompous superbity of heart towards heaven. 1863 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 282/2 The lady..dismissing her companion, not a little chafed by what he thinks her insufferable superbity. 1903 Sat. Rev. 22 Aug. 234 The unimaginative superbities find themselves confronted by a force they have always striven to ignore. 1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan p. ix She went to the stake without a stain on her character except the overweening presumption, the superbity as they called it, that led her thither. 1990 Independent on Sunday 11 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 16/1 Those..unsympathetic to the Nabokovian voice will succeed in finding plenty to be unsympathetic to here: some preciosity, some ferocity, much superbity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1540 |
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