单词 | wiseness |
释义 | wisenessn. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.c1320 |
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