单词 | discoursiveness |
释义 | discoursivenessn. The quality of being discoursive (in various senses).Apparently rare between the late 17th and early 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun] reasonc1330 skillingc1374 discourse?c1400 discursec1443 argumentationa1492 ratiocination1532 ration1548 discursion1603 discursiveness1647 discoursiveness1661 movement1869 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 270 The discoursiveness of Reason. 1696 J. Sergeant Method to Sci. iii. iv. 271 She [sc. the human soul] retains a modification or a kind of tang of the Discoursiveness she had here. 1831 G. Ross tr. F. Bulgarin Ivan Vejeeghen II. xii. 222 The frank discoursiveness of Moscow, the freedom from restraint in behaviour, and the old-fashioned Russian hospitality, are reckoned here unsufferable rudeness and Gothic barbarity. 1886 County Gentleman 6 Mar. 306/3 We can forgive a good deal of discoursiveness in a professed literary gossip, but the writer has here overstepped all legitimate limits. 1913 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 17 May 13/2 There was none of the proverbial feminine discoursiveness in Miss Jess' clear statement of the causes of her resignation. 1971 Fortnight 15 Dec. 16/1 Borges obviously shares my own dissatisfaction with the discoursiveness and descriptiveness of traditional prose fiction. 2002 R. Hickey Source Bk. Irish Eng. iii. i. 121 Despite its size and discoursiveness this document does not contain any information about how then contemporary English was spoken in Ireland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1661 |
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