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单词 get-there-ativeness
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get-there-ativenessn.

Forms: 1800s–1900s get-there-ativeness, 1800s–1900s get-there-itiveness.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: to get there at get v. Phrases 3i, -ative suffix, -ness suffix.
Etymology: < to get there at get v. Phrases 3i + -ative suffix + -ness suffix.Compare rare and slightly later get-there-ative (adjective):1894 Evening Democrat (Warren, Pa.) 28 Apr. His ha! ha! is as healthy and get-thereative as any in the land.
U.S. Obsolete.
= get-up-and-go n.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > energy or enterprise
undertakingc1400
enterprisec1450
energy1793
dynamism1831
go-aheadism1838
get-up1841
go-ahead1843
go-aheadness1847
drive1859
get-up-and-get1865
get-up-and-go1871
get-there-ativeness1883
push-and-go1885
hustle1892
go-getting1919
go-gettingness1928
dynamicism1947
go-go-go1954
1883 Bismarck (Dakota Territory) Tribune 31 Aug. 4/4 It was a south Dakota paper that said: ‘For get-there-ativeness, Bismarck takes the cake’.
1891 Printers' Ink 29 July 80/1 An advertisement that will change a healthy, full-blooded man into a seemingly shattered wreck has the merit, possibly, of get-there-ativeness.
1900 19th Cent. 48 800 We [sc. American women] have nothing like your enterprise and ‘get-there-ativeness’ in my country.
1921 Commerc. Car Jrnl. 15 Feb. 92/1 The difference between the purely static state of mind and the one bristling with dynamic energy and ‘get-there-itiveness’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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