| 释义 |
generalness|ˈdʒɛnərəlnɪs|
[f. general a. + -ness.]
The state, quality, or fact of being general, in various senses. Now rare.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. xxiv. (1634) 471, I confuted their errour, which thinke that the generallnesse of the promises extendeth equally to all mankinde. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 21 They had with a generall consent (rather springing by the generalnesse of the cause..) set themselves in armes. 1639Laud Wks. (1849) II. 239 It is not necessary to the lawfulness and generalness of a council that all the bishops of the world should be actually present. 1683W. Clagett Answ. Dissent. Object. Bk. Com. Prayer (1688) 4 They who Object the Generalness of our Confessions against us. 1894Temple Bar Mag. CI. 13 Here is a generality in no degree inferior in generalness to his. |