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freshness|ˈfrɛʃnɪs|
[f. fresh a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being fresh in senses of the adj. spec. forwardness, impertinence. Also concr. (nonce-use) a fresh stream. Cf. fresh a. 15.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxi. (1495) 451 Fressh water rysyth vpwarde for fresshnes and lyghtnes, and salte water fallyth dounwarde for his heuynesse. 1493Petronilla (Pynson) 138 Clad all in floures of spirituall fresshnesse. a1500Cuckow & Night. 155 For therof truly commeth all goodnesse..Jollitie, pleasaunce, and freshnesse. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lv. 184 Y⊇ fresshenes of his aparyll. 1626Bacon Sylva §824 The Kite affecteth not so much the Grossenesse of the Aire as the Cold and Freshnesse thereof. 1683Boyle in Phil. Trans. XVII. 628 My way of examining the Freshness and Saltness of Waters. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 425 ⁋1 That I might enjoy the Freshness of the Evening in my Garden. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. I. i. vi. §32 The mind runs after it with..much freshness and eagerness. 1803–6Wordsw. Intimations Immort. i, The glory and the freshness of a dream. a1821Keats ‘I stood tiptoe upon a little hill’, Where the hurrying freshnesses aye preach A natural sermon o'er their pebbly beds. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 164 The impression..had already lost much of its freshness. 1870Morris Earthly Par. l. i. 13 The freshness of the open sea Seemed ease and joy and very life to me. 1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant 160 The mob began to take its revenge—for the discomfort..it had brought upon itself by its own too rash freshness. 1901Munsey's Mag. XXIV. 791/1 He had once heartily ‘larruped’ a new hand who had exhibited an unpleasing ‘freshness’ when speaking to her. 1928J. C. Lincoln Silas Bradford's Boy 13 The captain's dignity was slightly ruffled by what he considered freshness on the part of his nephew. |