| 释义 |
ˈdifficultness rare.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being difficult; difficulty.
1560P. Whitehorne tr. Macchiavelli's Arte of Warre (1573) 70 b Such difficultnesse is necessarie. 1580Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele 170 It toke away the difficultnesse of the swallowing downe. 1644Digby Two Treatises (1645) ii. 77 The difficultnesse of this subject..would not allow us that liberty. 1934C. S. Forester Peacemaker 19 He was experienced now in Mary's ‘difficultness’. 1947Trans. Philol. Soc. 1946 195 The growth in more serious shape of that difficultness—at times almost suggestive of nascent ‘persecution-mania’—which prevented any happy relationships with almost all of his academic colleagues. |