vehemencyn.

Brit.

/ˈviːᵻm(ə)nsi/,

/ˈviːhᵻm(ə)nsi/, U.S.

/ˈviəmənsi/,

/ˈvihəmənsi/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s vehemencye, 1500s uehemencie, 1500s vehementcie, 1500s vehementcy, 1500s vehementie, 1500s–1600s uehemency, 1500s–1600s vehemencie, 1500s–1600s vehemensy, 1500s– vehemency, 1600s vehemensie, 1600s vehimencie; also Scottish pre-1700 vehemensie, pre-1700 weehimensie.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin vehementia.

Etymology: < classical Latin vehementia violent force or movement, energetic or enthusiastic character, keenness, (of style) vigour, forcefulness < vehement- , vehemēns vehement adj. + -ia -y suffix³; compare -ency suffix. Compare earlier vehemence n. and the Romance parallels cited at that entry. Compare also earlier vehement adj.With the pronunciation compare discussion at vehicle n.

Now somewhat rare.

†1. Physical force or intensity; (also) loudness; = vehemence n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun]

brathc1175

reighshipc1275

airc1300

ragec1330

sturdinessc1384

violencea1387

fierceness1435

vehemencyc1487

furiosity1509

fiercetya1513

bremeness?1529

boistousness1530

vehemence1535

bruteness1538

violency1538

violentness1544

vehementness1561

wrath1579

fury1585

torture1605

keenness?1606

ragingness1621

stiffness1623

rapt1632

tempestuousness1648

boisterousnessa1650

rampancy1652

boisture1667

untamedness1727

paroxysm1893

storminess1894

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun]

loudnessc1050

magnitude?a1425

vehemencyc1487

noisiness1727

streperousness1727

thunderousness1904

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 365 Thurgh deuyne vehemencye of enstrengthyd compression, he so enstraytted their golettis & throtis that inmediatly he strangled theym bothe to the deth.

1538 Here Begynneth Pystles & Gospels f. lxxiiii They shal be moued with the wynde, & shall be plucked vp with the vehemency of the wynde.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 25 The earth trembeled throwgh the vehemencie of theyr owtcry [L. prae clamore illorum].

1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. ix. 118 Many Barques..with the vehemencie of the wether were runne on lande.

1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xxviii. 49 In likenes of an eagle that flieth with vehemencie.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 439 Least the vehemency of chirking frogs vexe the wish'd-for Repose of his..body.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 105 It is continually forced along with Celerity and Vehemency.

1771 Middlesex Jrnl. 13 Apr. A very high northerly wind spread the flames with rapid vehemency, so that the fire raged for fifteen hours.

1830 R. Spittal tr. R.-J. Bertin in Treat. Auscultation v. 140 The pulsations produced by the aneurismal tumor differ from those of the heart by the vehemency of the noise which accompanies them.

1843 Graham's Mag. Mar. 146/2 From the mountains of the opposite shore, columns of blood-red smoke and flashes of sulphurous fire issued with an angry roaring vehemency.

1886 Star (St. Peter Port, Guernsey) 17 July It is sufficiently exaggerated by writers who declare that the lead was often fused by the vehemency of its motion.

2. Force or intensity of personal feeling, action, expression, etc.; = vehemence n. 1a. Also occasionally: an instance of this; = vehemence n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun]

woodnessc1000

furyc1374

ferteec1380

ragea1393

violencea1393

excess1423

zeala1425

vehemence1445

extremity1509

franticnessa1529

vehemency1534

wildnessc1540

impotency1542

violent1576

distraughture1594

distraught1610

distractiona1616

distractedness?1617

entrancement1637

distractfulnessa1640

impotencea1640

transportment1639

transportednessa1656

violent1667

whirl1707

rave1765

Sturm und Drang1857

storm and stress1879

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > specifically of personal feelings or actions

ragea1393

violencea1393

vehemence1445

vehemency1534

vehementness1561

impetuosity1639

rankness1640

impetuousness1656

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > vehemency or vehement language

thunderc1380

vehemency1534

thunder-blast1884

strong languagea1910

the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > sudden outburst or access of passion

heatc1200

gerec1369

accessc1384

braida1450

guerie1542

bursting1552

ruff1567

riot1575

suddentyc1575

pathaire1592

flaw1596

blaze1597

start1598

passion1599

firework1601

storm1602

estuation1605

gare1606

accession?1608

vehemency1612

boutade1614

flush1614

escapea1616

egression1651

ebullition1655

ebulliency1667

flushinga1680

ecstasy1695

gusta1704

gush1720

vehemence1741

burst1751

overboiling1767

explosion1769

outflaming1836

passion fit1842

outfly1877

Vesuvius1886

outflame1889

the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] > fit of violent emotion

furyc1374

ecstasyc1384

ethroclytes1485

extremity1509

vehemency1612

rapturea1616

rapture1620

fit1654

transport1658

vehemence1741

orgasma1763

rave1765

rampage1860

brainstorm1861

tear1880

maenadism1883

1534 T. Swinnerton in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes sig. D. ij^v The vehemencye & diligence peraduenture that they shewed aboue their felowes in settyng forth the worde of god.

1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye sig. Diiii The greatnes and vehemency..of his fayth.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 97 Polidore..wryteth very vehemently against him in his History, which vehemency or fonde malice I thought meete..to suppresse.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 8 He could not satisfie himselfe in his vehemencie against such a doctrine as this was.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 229 Would it apply well to the vehemency of your affection that I should win what you would enioy?

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 74 in Scepsis Scientifica That which excites men to endless bawlings, and altercations; Schisms, Heresies, and Rebellions, by the vehemencies of Dispute.

1679 M. Prance True Narr. Popish Plot 28 Which he pronounced with a great deal of vehemency and earnestness.

1707 Observator 25 June I need not speak with this Vehemency to my Countrymen.

1762 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison (ed. 4) III. xxii. 211 Well do I know the vehemency [1753 vehemence] with which you are wont to pursue a new adventure.

1795 P. Will tr. C. Tschink Victim Magical Delusion III. 34 I deemed it impossible to preserve such a dominion over myself if the vehemency of my state of mind should not abate.

1832 Observer & Tel. (Hudson, Ohio) 19 Apr. Notice how the vehemency of his feelings often breaks the train of his argument.

1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors II. xlvii. 181 All these speeches were spoken with great vehemency.

1877 Belgravia Feb. 748/2 This tendency..only lived in him in later life as a warm, religious, and virtuous vehemency.

1917 Everybody's Mag. Jan. 1/1 Throughout our talk he had sat in a low chair, sometimes tilting it backward as he swayed with the vehemency of his words.

1969 Texas Stud. Lit. & Lang. 11 687 The vehemency of the dissenters' dislike for instrumental music.

2006 Pop. Music 25 85 The vehemency of his views about what constituted correct musical practice.

a. With reference to pain, disease, etc.: = vehemence n. 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > severity of pain

vehemency?1541

cruelty1634

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > degree of intensity > violence or severity

malicea1382

vehemency?1541

malignity1543

acutenessa1644

virulency1651

malignancy1693

virulence1748

severity1808

acuity1839

fulminancy1887

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. G.i^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The vehemency & strength of the dysease.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 13/2 That the payne, and the accidens encrease not, nor diminische but contynue in great vehementie.

1639 J. Woodall Treat. Plague in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 359 According to the strength of the sicke, and vehemencie of the disease.

1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. vii. 173 No man ever endured such rage, and vehemencie of pain.

1702 J. Savage Compl. Hist. Germany 448 The Emperour..knowing, by the Vehemency of his Disease that Life could not last long, sent for all his Children.

1769 Town & Country Mag. July 356/1 A gutta serena succeeding an apoplexy, or epilepsy, is a sign of death, or the vehemency of the distemper.

1855 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 342/2 I found such [patients] as I had dressed with a digestive only, free from vehemency of pain.

1917 Med. Summary Feb. 365/2 A special form of infection..ending fatally with such vehemency as we never observed it before.

1977 H. Musaph in H. Musaph & A. A. Haspels Dyspareunia iii. 19 Vaginismus is a symptom that can vary in seriousness, in vehemency, in temporality.

†b. Intensity or strength of heat, smell, etc.; = vehemence n. 3a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > specifically of conditions or influences

violencea1393

vehemency1546

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun]

highnesseOE

strengthOE

altitude?a1475

vehemence1535

vehemency1546

profundity1565

height1601

profoundness1612

depth1624

intensenessa1631

exquisiteness1650

eminence1651

intensivenessa1656

intensity1665

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iii. v. f. lxx They had perceiued the commoditie of fyre, and felte therby a great comforte agaynste the vehemencie of colde [L. vim frigoris].

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Vehemencia odoris,..the vehemencie of, &c.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 111 Humour refresheth heate, and slaketh the vehemencie thereof.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. vii. 96 The vehemencie of the fire forceth and driveth vp an aboundance of vapours.

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours 309 Which if it were Hippocrates his opinion notwithstanding the vehemency of his remedies [etc.].

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Flower On these they hang a Piece of Cloth, which..defends 'em from the Vehemency of its [sc. the sun's] Rays.

1784 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. i. 23 When the sun rises with the Dog-star, we find an influence which causes vehemency of heat, contagion, and infirmity.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iv. 54 Those farther rules by which diviners pretended to ascertain the vehemency of this evil direction.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	vehemency
释义	vehemencyn. Brit. /ˈviːᵻm(ə)nsi/, /ˈviːhᵻm(ə)nsi/, U.S. /ˈviəmənsi/, /ˈvihəmənsi/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s vehemencye, 1500s uehemencie, 1500s vehementcie, 1500s vehementcy, 1500s vehementie, 1500s–1600s uehemency, 1500s–1600s vehemencie, 1500s–1600s vehemensy, 1500s– vehemency, 1600s vehemensie, 1600s vehimencie; also Scottish pre-1700 vehemensie, pre-1700 weehimensie. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin vehementia. Etymology: < classical Latin vehementia violent force or movement, energetic or enthusiastic character, keenness, (of style) vigour, forcefulness < vehement- , vehemēns vehement adj. + -ia -y suffix³; compare -ency suffix. Compare earlier vehemence n. and the Romance parallels cited at that entry. Compare also earlier vehement adj.With the pronunciation compare discussion at vehicle n. Now somewhat rare. †1. Physical force or intensity; (also) loudness; = vehemence n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] brathc1175 reighshipc1275 airc1300 ragec1330 sturdinessc1384 violencea1387 fierceness1435 vehemencyc1487 furiosity1509 fiercetya1513 bremeness?1529 boistousness1530 vehemence1535 bruteness1538 violency1538 violentness1544 vehementness1561 wrath1579 fury1585 torture1605 keenness?1606 ragingness1621 stiffness1623 rapt1632 tempestuousness1648 boisterousnessa1650 rampancy1652 boisture1667 untamedness1727 paroxysm1893 storminess1894 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] loudnessc1050 magnitude?a1425 vehemencyc1487 noisiness1727 streperousness1727 thunderousness1904 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 365 Thurgh deuyne vehemencye of enstrengthyd compression, he so enstraytted their golettis & throtis that inmediatly he strangled theym bothe to the deth. 1538 Here Begynneth Pystles & Gospels f. lxxiiii They shal be moued with the wynde, & shall be plucked vp with the vehemency of the wynde. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 25 The earth trembeled throwgh the vehemencie of theyr owtcry [L. prae clamore illorum]. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. ix. 118 Many Barques..with the vehemencie of the wether were runne on lande. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. Deut. xxviii. 49 In likenes of an eagle that flieth with vehemencie. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 439 Least the vehemency of chirking frogs vexe the wish'd-for Repose of his..body. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 105 It is continually forced along with Celerity and Vehemency. 1771 Middlesex Jrnl. 13 Apr. A very high northerly wind spread the flames with rapid vehemency, so that the fire raged for fifteen hours. 1830 R. Spittal tr. R.-J. Bertin in Treat. Auscultation v. 140 The pulsations produced by the aneurismal tumor differ from those of the heart by the vehemency of the noise which accompanies them. 1843 Graham's Mag. Mar. 146/2 From the mountains of the opposite shore, columns of blood-red smoke and flashes of sulphurous fire issued with an angry roaring vehemency. 1886 Star (St. Peter Port, Guernsey) 17 July It is sufficiently exaggerated by writers who declare that the lead was often fused by the vehemency of its motion. 2. Force or intensity of personal feeling, action, expression, etc.; = vehemence n. 1a. Also occasionally: an instance of this; = vehemence n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] woodnessc1000 furyc1374 ferteec1380 ragea1393 violencea1393 excess1423 zeala1425 vehemence1445 extremity1509 franticnessa1529 vehemency1534 wildnessc1540 impotency1542 violent1576 distraughture1594 distraught1610 distractiona1616 distractedness?1617 entrancement1637 distractfulnessa1640 impotencea1640 transportment1639 transportednessa1656 violent1667 whirl1707 rave1765 Sturm und Drang1857 storm and stress1879 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > specifically of personal feelings or actions ragea1393 violencea1393 vehemence1445 vehemency1534 vehementness1561 impetuosity1639 rankness1640 impetuousness1656 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > vehemency or vehement language thunderc1380 vehemency1534 thunder-blast1884 strong languagea1910 the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > sudden outburst or access of passion heatc1200 gerec1369 accessc1384 braida1450 guerie1542 bursting1552 ruff1567 riot1575 suddentyc1575 pathaire1592 flaw1596 blaze1597 start1598 passion1599 firework1601 storm1602 estuation1605 gare1606 accession?1608 vehemency1612 boutade1614 flush1614 escapea1616 egression1651 ebullition1655 ebulliency1667 flushinga1680 ecstasy1695 gusta1704 gush1720 vehemence1741 burst1751 overboiling1767 explosion1769 outflaming1836 passion fit1842 outfly1877 Vesuvius1886 outflame1889 the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] > fit of violent emotion furyc1374 ecstasyc1384 ethroclytes1485 extremity1509 vehemency1612 rapturea1616 rapture1620 fit1654 transport1658 vehemence1741 orgasma1763 rave1765 rampage1860 brainstorm1861 tear1880 maenadism1883 1534 T. Swinnerton in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes sig. D. ij^v The vehemencye & diligence peraduenture that they shewed aboue their felowes in settyng forth the worde of god. 1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye sig. Diiii The greatnes and vehemency..of his fayth. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 97 Polidore..wryteth very vehemently against him in his History, which vehemency or fonde malice I thought meete..to suppresse. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 8 He could not satisfie himselfe in his vehemencie against such a doctrine as this was. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 229 Would it apply well to the vehemency of your affection that I should win what you would enioy? View more context for this quotation 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 74 in Scepsis Scientifica That which excites men to endless bawlings, and altercations; Schisms, Heresies, and Rebellions, by the vehemencies of Dispute. 1679 M. Prance True Narr. Popish Plot 28 Which he pronounced with a great deal of vehemency and earnestness. 1707 Observator 25 June I need not speak with this Vehemency to my Countrymen. 1762 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison (ed. 4) III. xxii. 211 Well do I know the vehemency [1753 vehemence] with which you are wont to pursue a new adventure. 1795 P. Will tr. C. Tschink Victim Magical Delusion III. 34 I deemed it impossible to preserve such a dominion over myself if the vehemency of my state of mind should not abate. 1832 Observer & Tel. (Hudson, Ohio) 19 Apr. Notice how the vehemency of his feelings often breaks the train of his argument. 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors II. xlvii. 181 All these speeches were spoken with great vehemency. 1877 Belgravia Feb. 748/2 This tendency..only lived in him in later life as a warm, religious, and virtuous vehemency. 1917 Everybody's Mag. Jan. 1/1 Throughout our talk he had sat in a low chair, sometimes tilting it backward as he swayed with the vehemency of his words. 1969 Texas Stud. Lit. & Lang. 11 687 The vehemency of the dissenters' dislike for instrumental music. 2006 Pop. Music 25 85 The vehemency of his views about what constituted correct musical practice. 3. a. With reference to pain, disease, etc.: = vehemence n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > [noun] > severity of pain vehemency?1541 cruelty1634 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > degree of intensity > violence or severity malicea1382 vehemency?1541 malignity1543 acutenessa1644 virulency1651 malignancy1693 virulence1748 severity1808 acuity1839 fulminancy1887 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. G.i^v, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The vehemency & strength of the dysease. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 13/2 That the payne, and the accidens encrease not, nor diminische but contynue in great vehementie. 1639 J. Woodall Treat. Plague in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 359 According to the strength of the sicke, and vehemencie of the disease. 1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. vii. 173 No man ever endured such rage, and vehemencie of pain. 1702 J. Savage Compl. Hist. Germany 448 The Emperour..knowing, by the Vehemency of his Disease that Life could not last long, sent for all his Children. 1769 Town & Country Mag. July 356/1 A gutta serena succeeding an apoplexy, or epilepsy, is a sign of death, or the vehemency of the distemper. 1855 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 342/2 I found such [patients] as I had dressed with a digestive only, free from vehemency of pain. 1917 Med. Summary Feb. 365/2 A special form of infection..ending fatally with such vehemency as we never observed it before. 1977 H. Musaph in H. Musaph & A. A. Haspels Dyspareunia iii. 19 Vaginismus is a symptom that can vary in seriousness, in vehemency, in temporality. †b. Intensity or strength of heat, smell, etc.; = vehemence n. 3a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > specifically of conditions or influences violencea1393 vehemency1546 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] highnesseOE strengthOE altitude?a1475 vehemence1535 vehemency1546 profundity1565 height1601 profoundness1612 depth1624 intensenessa1631 exquisiteness1650 eminence1651 intensivenessa1656 intensity1665 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke iii. v. f. lxx They had perceiued the commoditie of fyre, and felte therby a great comforte agaynste the vehemencie of colde [L. vim frigoris]. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Vehemencia odoris,..the vehemencie of, &c. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 111 Humour refresheth heate, and slaketh the vehemencie thereof. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. vii. 96 The vehemencie of the fire forceth and driveth vp an aboundance of vapours. 1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours 309 Which if it were Hippocrates his opinion notwithstanding the vehemency of his remedies [etc.]. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Flower On these they hang a Piece of Cloth, which..defends 'em from the Vehemency of its [sc. the sun's] Rays. 1784 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. i. 23 When the sun rises with the Dog-star, we find an influence which causes vehemency of heat, contagion, and infirmity. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iv. 54 Those farther rules by which diviners pretended to ascertain the vehemency of this evil direction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1487
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