单词 | firsthandness |
释义 | firsthandnessn. = first-handedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > originality or non-imitation > [noun] authenticalness1631 originality1742 firsthandness1884 first-handedness1890 1884 J. M. D. Meiklejohn in R. Cowper Proc. Internat. Conf. on Educ. 4 120 Professors of education, then, stand for a careful search after the new, and a frank criticism of the old; for first-handness in thought, culture and knowledge. 1908 J. M. Baldwin Thought & Things II. vii. 203 It requires us..to treat knowledge by a line of criticism that desiderates a certain immediacy or first-handness. 1931 R. Macaulay Some Relig. Elem. in Eng. Lit. ii. 44 Chaucer's literary dealings with religion have the freshness and firsthandness one would expect. 1950 Scrutiny 17 i. 39 For what looks like carelessness..is actually precision and vivid firsthandness. 1959 D. J. Boorstin in R. M. Dorson Amer. Folklore (1977) Pref. p. x He has the sound of the spoken word in his ear. There is no substitute for this firsthandness. 1999 C. Scott Spoken Image ii. 64 It is there that we shall find its intensity, its first-handness, its irreplaceability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1884 |
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