单词 | hard-handedness |
释义 | hard-handednessn. The quality or condition of being hard-handed (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > authority > strictness > [noun] > severity or sternness rethenesseOE grimness971 hardnessOE sternhead1297 sharpnessa1325 reddoura1375 fiercetya1382 sternness1382 fiercenessc1384 sturdinessc1384 fellnessc1410 austeritya1425 raddourc1440 austerenessa1450 severity1530 cruelness1537 cruelty1556 severeness1579 tender mercies1611 piquancya1677 Draconianism1819 astringency1823 Draconism1832 hard-handedness1849 starkness1884 1849 National Era 14 June 95/3 Their art, science, and literature, their hard-handedness and willing-heartedness, and their experience of life generally. 1852 Art Jrnl. 125 There was prevalent the hypothesis that hard-handedness necessarily led to thick-headedness. 1885 A. Maclaren Week Day Addr. 126 The insolence and hardhandedness of Roman rule. 1913 W. L. Comfort Road of Living Men iii. 296 The miners seemed to think my sudden hard-handedness a pose. 1986 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 19 July There were a few appeals to political strategy... But bombast and folksiness were in much greater supply than hard-handedness. 2014 Cape Argus (Nexis) 3 Feb. 12 He cited the ‘hard-handedness’ of police as contributing to the distrust and antagonism from community members. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1849 |
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