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单词 creatureliness
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creaturelinessn.

Brit. /ˈkriːtʃəlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈkritʃərlinᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: creaturely adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < creaturely adj. + -ness suffix. Compare creatureship n., creaturehood n., creaturedom n.
The quality or state of being creaturely.
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the world > life > [noun] > quality of being
creatureship1643
creatureliness1650
creaturehood1661
1650 I. Pennington Severall Fresh Inward Openings 44 There is a worm in the foundation.. [which] maketh them quickly discover their own weakness, creatureliness, and rottenness.
1854 R. C. Trench Synonyms New Test. I. xlii. 173 The acknowledgment..of creatureliness, of absolute dependence, of having nothing, but receiving all things of God.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. vi. vi. 233 This..process which seeks..to transcend humanity and creatureliness.
1954 Catholic Times 24 Dec. 9/3 An attempt to deny intellectually and in practice the creatureliness of man, his dependence on God.
1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 May 299/1 The sentence neatly summarizes the tension in Bellow between creatureliness and ideas, the uncertainty about what matters in human life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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