单词 | free-and-easiness |
释义 | > as lemmasˌfree-and-ˈeasiness ˌfree-and-ˈeasiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > naturalness or lack of constraint unconstrainedness1656 shamelessness1667 unconstraint1713 self-abandonment1811 abandon1815 abandonment1834 self-abandon1837 free-and-easiness1842 1842 C. Dickens Let. 22 Mar. (1974) III. 154 Imagine..how now and then a republican boy, of surpassing and indescribable free and easiness comes in..and..inspects me at his leisure. 1852 Chambers's Repository Jan. 24 Everybody is in working-dress, and, as might be expected, a general atmosphere of decided free-and-easiness reigns over the assembly. 1920 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 26 July 7/2 How I do love all this free and easyness. How I wish I had been brought up in an atmosphere like this. 1977 Hist. Jrnl. 20 53 This growing free-and-easiness began to extend even to two priests in the service of the Holy Office. 2005 Austral. Mag. (Nexis) 12 Feb. 34 We have the free-and-easiness of the Internet-hip under-25s. < as lemmas |
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