释义 |
livingness|ˈlɪvɪŋnɪs| [f. living ppl. a. + -ness.] The quality, condition, or fact of being alive or living; vigour, vivacity, vividness.
1688Sandilands Salut. Endeared Love 29 Which indisposeth both Body and Mind to serve the Lord even in that livingness and freshness which he requires. 1831Lytton Godolphin 51 The attitude was even awful in the livingness of its command. 1851G. Brimley Ess. 113 There has arisen in our country..a sense of the livingness and value of our history. 1871F. J. A. Hort Hulsean Lect. 195 Early sense of life..branches off into self-regarding passions, but thereby loses its own livingness. 1884Mrs. Oliphant Open Door 43 Signs of the livingness of nature. |