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单词 unruliness
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unrulinessn.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈruːlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈrulinᵻs/
Forms: Middle English–1600s vnrulynesse, 1500s–1600s vnrulines, 1500s–1600s vnruliness, 1500s–1600s vnrulinesse, 1500s–1600s vnrulynes, 1500s– unruliness, 1600s unrulinesse, 1600s unrulynes, 1600s unrulyness.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: unruly adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < unruly adj. + -ness suffix.
The quality or condition of being unruly; unruly behaviour or character.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [noun]
unrulinessc1400
wildnessc1400
ramagec1485
untamedness1592
unruliment1596
uncomeliness1607
unreclaimedness1611
infrenation1623
indocility1648
c1400 Omnis Plantacio (Egerton) l. 1499 in Wks. Lollard Preacher (2001) 64 Alle þo þat mai amende þis vnrulynesse among þese apostatas and doen not.
1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 12 §1 The Insolency and Unruliness of Men.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 150 You must keepe the Boare from them: for with his vnrulinesse, he maketh them to cast.
1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 210 For the Quieting of the Vnrulines, of the spirits.
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. x. 440 Excellent Caveats..touching..Unruliness of the Tongue.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 141 The unruliness of our own appetites and deceitfulness of sin.
a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) vi. 196 Some vapour'd in the unruliness of joy.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. xix. 110 The governments affected to regret the unruliness of their subjects.
1921 M. Allen in B. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1921 (1922) 45 The statesman, fearful of losing votes, rendered blue and depressed by the unruliness of nations.
2002 H. Jacobson Who's Sorry Now? (2003) ii. i. 174 The homogeneity of her colouring seemed to him..stirringly at odds with the unruliness of her character.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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