单词 | farness |
释义 | farnessn. 1. a. The state or fact of being far; remoteness. Also occasionally of sight: Far-reachingness. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] farness1398 remotionc1425 distance1440 longinquityc1550 distancy1597 remoteness1607 removednessa1616 elongation1616 far-offness1873 far-awayness1888 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [noun] > ability to see far long sight1737 farness1883 far-sight1887 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xxi. 69 The syȝte demyth a grete sterre but smalle..for fernesse of place. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 832 Fearing the farreness of the iourney. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence ii. 29 Heer is no neernesse of affinitie at all, but as much farnesse as needeth to be. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 29 By reason of the farrnesse from the Court. 1860 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. VIII. lx. 312 Farness of sight and fixedness of belief. 1883 S. A. Brooke in Homilet. Monthly Dec. 152 In their farness from the strife and trouble of men. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [noun] spacec1350 distancec1392 farness1523 remove1628 eloinmenta1670 1523 in State Papers Henry VIII (1836) IV. 1 Every bataile an arrowe shotte from the other, and all like fernes from the Englisshe armye. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 78 Having nearnesses or farnesses betwen each other. 2. concrete. Distant parts. (from, in) the farness: ‘the distance’. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > the distance farness1571 offscape1711 eloinment1716 far-away1823 far-off1866 yonder1939 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxv. 6) Thou that art the hope..of the farnesse of the sea. a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 263 In the farness lay the moonlight on the Mountains of the Nile. 1855 Fraser's Mag. 51 94 From the farness, To the castle..rode a knight in flashing harness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1398 |
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