surlinessn.
/ˈsəːlɪnɪs/ Surly character, condition, or manner.† a. Imperiousness, haughtiness, arrogance. Obsolete.
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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 world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > surliness
churlnessa1500
churlishness1528
carlishness1552
surliness1587
insuavity1624
gruffness1691
chuffiness1731
bearishness1740
beardom1840
gruffiness1865
1587 in T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (new ed.) iv. i. §16 (margin) The surlinesse of some by reason of pride, and a vaine opinion of their owne holines.
1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 389 To ouer-rule Christian princes and Churches with greater surlines than ever did Patriarke or Pope.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 128 A kinde of froward surlinesse hardly to be pleased.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 5 To..mollifie the Spartan surlinesse with his smooth songs and odes.
1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 164 That we fall not upon either of the extremes, base Submission, or Surliness.
b. Gloomy ill-humour, churlish moroseness.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > moroseness or sulking
morosity1534
dort1632
moroseness1653
surliness1700
sulkiness1760
sulk1792
sulks1805
sulking1880
mard1998
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 32 None greets; for none the Greeting will return: But in dumb Surliness, each arm'd with Care His Foe profest, as Brother of the War.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) I. xliii. 303 How shall I stand the questions of some, the set surliness of others?
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous xii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 275 The surliness which has replaced their wonted courtesy of manners.
1879 L. G. Seguin Black Forest ii. 38 This independence of character does not produce any surliness of manner in the Black Forest peasantry.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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