单词 | goodiness |
释义 | goodinessn. Goodness of a weak and sentimental kind; affected or self-conscious conformity to conventional moral standards or good manners. Frequently in explicit contrast with goodness. Cf. goody adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] hypocrisy?c1225 pope-holya1425 saunteringc1440 pope-holiness1528 Pharisaism?1573 lip-holiness1591 lip-religion1597 hypocrism1605 lip-devotion1613 sanctimonya1618 lip-worship1656 sanctimoniousness1679 unction1692 sanctification1768 goodiness1808 pietism1829 lip-reverencec1843 Pecksniffery1848 mawwormism1850 goody-good1851 lip-homage1858 devil-dodging1866 goody-goodiness1868 goody-goodyism1868 piosity1883 unctuosity1884 1808 H. C. Robinson Let. 7 May in Notes & Lect. on Shakespeare (1849) I. 327 [Summarizing a lecture by Coleridge] This is not virtue but vanity:—Such books and such lessons do not teach goodness, but, if I might hazard such a word, goodiness. 1810 S. T. Coleridge in Courier 20 Jan. Whose goodness, or (if I may be allowed to coin a word, which the times, if not the language require) whose goodiness, consists [etc.]. 1841 Edinb. Rev. 73 367 Clifford's extreme goodness (to borrow a phrase from Coleridge) not unfrequently degenerates into goodiness. 1871 W. Cory Let. 26 Dec. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 278 The small-townish, old-maidish goodyness of Eugénie Grandet. 1898 Dublin Rev. Jan. 218 The obtrusive goodyness which has been apt to make Catholic children shy of Catholic literature. 1920 Amer. Jrnl. Urol. & Sexol. Jan. 44 These very girls, educated in this primness, this goodiness, when set free from the restraints of education indulge more extensively than any other women in liaisons. 1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone i. 18 Tedious manifestations of the moral conscience..pulling for Sunday-school rightness and goodiness. 2006 C. M. Coope in T. Chappell Values & Virtues i. 36 Nietzsche would have talked of decadence: meaning here the replacement of good sense by goodyness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1808 |
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