| 释义 |
sageness|ˈseɪdʒnɪs|
[f. sage a. + -ness.]
The quality of being sage; profound wisdom.
1509Watson Ship of Fools xxxiv. (1517) H vij, He is a foole without sagenesse. 1540–1Elyot Image Gov. xiv. (1541) 24 A man..whom for his great witte and sagenes in apparance, the Emperour had in syngular fauour. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. v. 196 The sagenesse, civility, thrift, abstinence, and such like personated parts and customes at home, will be all laid aside. 1755Johnson, Sageness, gravity, prudence. 1814Coleridge Let. to J. Kenyon (1895) 640 Public prudence and practical sageness. 1907Q. Rev. Oct. 365 If we [sc. Confucians] could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom it would be better for the people a hundredfold. |