单词 | easternness |
释义 | easternnessn. The quality or condition of being eastern, or of having eastern characteristics (in various senses of the adjective). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun] > quality easternness1655 eastness1848 easterliness1898 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 103 I meet with no satisfactory reason of the name [of Oriel College, Oxford] which some will have to contain something of Easternes therein. 1892 C. MacMillan Metaspermae Minnesota Valley 750 The aquatics, however, are strongly eastern;..while the easternness of the drier-soil plants is the least of the three. 1899 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea I. 188 What I like about Jeypore..is its characteristic easternness. 1906 N. Lorimer By Waters of Carthage viii. 160 How can I suggest to you the Easternness of that smell, which, for the first time, introduced itself into my Celtic system. 1969 Systematic Zool. 18 196/1 Projection magnitude on the first axis can be used as an index of ‘easternness’ since eastern samples are distinguished by their high loadings and western snails by their low projections on this axis. 1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways i. xiv. 27 A Missourian gets used to..a Westerner sneering at his effete Easterness, and the Easterner taking him for a cowhand. 2003 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 68 486/1 Poles and Rumanians who spoke Yiddish (a marker of easternness) received lower returns to education. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1655 |
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