| 释义 |
waywardness|ˈweɪwədnɪs|
[f. wayward a. + -ness.]
The quality of being wayward (see the various senses of the adj.).
1382Wyclif Rom. i. 29 Fulfillid with al wickidnesse,..couetyse, weywardnesse [Vulg. nequitia]. c1450–1530Myrr. Our Ladye 152 Wretched were that persone that for eny waywardenes of harte wolde be vnreconcyled..at that tyme. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades ii. vi. 165 Our faulte and not the waywardnesse of God [non Dei morositatem] is the cause. 1676Hale Contempl. ii. Lord's Prayer 116 Therefore in great condescension to the waywardness of our Natures, he is often pleased to keep the Treasury of outward Blessings in his own hands [etc.]. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 528 The barbarous waywardness that could deprive me..of the exquisite felicity of my lot! 1823Lamb Elia, Poor Relations, The waywardness of his fate broke out against him with a second and worse malignity. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xviii, For all his waywardness, he took great credit to himself as being determined to be in earnest ‘this time’. 1863Kinglake Crimea (ed. 4) II. vi. 137 There was a waywardness in the course of the disease..for which it is difficult to account. 1872Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 1150 He, who lets His heart be stirr'd with any foolish heat At any gentle damsel's waywardness. 191919th Century May 897 Parliament..has rallied the people from the waywardness of rebellion.
¶ In lists of ‘Proper Terms’ mentioned as the typical attribute of haywards.
1486Bk. St. Albans f vij, A waywardnes of haywardis. |