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bitterness|ˈbɪtənɪs|
[OE. biternys, f. biter, bitter + -ness.]
The quality or state of being bitter: a. to taste; b. to the mind or feelings; c. deep sorrow or anguish of heart; d. animosity, acrimony of temper, action, or words; e. intensity of frost or cold wind.
971Blickl. Hom. 115 Þes middanᵹeard flyhþ from us mid mycelre biternesse. c1000ælfric Ex. xv. 23 Mara..þæt ys on ure Lyden biternys. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 45 Mirre for ure biternesse. 1382Wyclif Isa. xxxviii. 15 In the bitternesse of my soule. ― Rom. iii. 14 The mouth of whom is ful of cursyng, or wariyng, and bitternesse. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 68 The bittrenesse of the aloe tre. 1535Coverdale 1 Sam. xv. 32 Thus departeth the bytternesse of death. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 198 You measure the heat of our Liuers with the bitternes of your gals. 1617Markham Caval. i. 4 All the bitternesse and sharpenesse..of the Winter. 1711Steele Spect. No. 262 ⁋6 The Bitterness of Party. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet i. 249 A small degree of Bitterness, extremely agreeable to the Stomach. 1814Scott Wav. xxxiii, A sentiment of bitterness rose in his mind against the government. 1851Dixon W. Penn xxvi. (1872) 237 A prince who had tasted the bitterness of persecution.
† f. concr. A trait of bitterness, anything bitter.
1382Wyclif Job xiii. 26 Thou writist aȝen me bitternessis [1611 bitter things]. 1790G. Walker Serm. II. xx. 104 The disappointments, vexations, and bitternesses of life. |