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单词 wiseness
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wisenessn.

/ˈwʌɪznɪs/
Etymology: < wise adj. + -ness suffix. Compare Old English unwísnes.
rare.
1. The quality of being wise; wisdom; occasionally ironical.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [noun]
righteousnesseOE
snoterc950
witnessc950
wisdomOE
insightc1175
witc1175
smeighnessc1200
sleighta1300
witternessa1300
inwitc1305
wittiheadc1315
wisenessc1320
witterheda1325
wisehede1340
slyness1357
sapience1377
wisdomhood138.
prudencea1382
sapienta1400
sentencec1400
advice?a1439
sophyc1440
profunditya1500
wittiness1543
Minerva1601
depth1605
Sophia1649
visionariness1817
c1320 Cast. Love 292 To vchone sunderlyng He ȝaf a dole of..his wysnesse.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer ii. f. cccxliv For his goodnesse & wysenesse wolte thou nat do him worship?
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. §1 His morall wisenesse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. i. 260 Yet haue I something in me dangerous, Which let thy wisenesse [1603, 1604 wisedome] feare.
a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. ii. 38 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) Your wives wonderful wiseness.
1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. vii. viii. 110 Which is a wiseness that does honour to her education.
1820 Coleridge in Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 629 This chilly, doubting, qualifying wiseness.
1907 Sat. Rev. 8 June 702/2 This report..is full of touches that illustrate his wiseness.
2. right wiseness, erroneous division of rightwiseness, righteousness n.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > [noun]
righteousnesseOE
rightnessOE
justice1340
rightfulnessa1350
right wiseness1447
justnessc1450
droiture1483
rectitude1509
uprightness1541
erectness1646
principle1653
right-mindedness1767
perpendicular1823
1447 Shillingford Lett. (Camden) 134 Of your grete right wisnesse and speciall grace.
1493 Festivall (1515) 49 Come to this byleve by doynge of werkes of ryght wysenes.
c1500 New Notbroune Mayd 172 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 8 By ryght wysenes.
?1530 St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student xv. f. xxxiiv Trouth in his worde, & ryght wysenes in his dede.
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