单词 | imperiosity |
释义 | imperiosityn. The quality or fact of being imperious; imperiousness, arrogance.Apparently not recorded in 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > [noun] prideOE overgartc1175 surquidrya1250 stuntisea1327 arrogance1340 insolencec1386 surquidyc1407 succudryc1425 lordliness1440 arrogancy1477 ogartc1480 wantonness?a1505 stateliness1509 insolencya1513 surquidancea1525 superbityc1540 imperiousness1582 surliness1587 super-arrogation1593 insolentness1594 assumption1609 self-assumption1609 huff1611 imperiosity1618 superarrogancy1620 lordship1633 self-assuming1644 alazony1656 high-handednessa1658 fast1673 arrogantness1756 overbearance1766 swaggera1821 huffishness1841 you-be-damnedness1885 high and mighty1924 1618 R. Fowns Trisagion ii. vii. 378 Yet such is the imperiositie of the Romish Church, that no man may read, expound, interpret, but after the rule of this vulgar Latine. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 138 These exorbitances of those sons of Eli..created a very great disgust..and many well enough affected to their Empire, did exceedingly blame their imperiosity. 1866 Musical World 12 May 303/1 Meyerbeer's romance is well suited to Mr. Santley, who sang it imperiously, the imperiosity, nevertheless, softened by the tenderness attaching to the remembrance of the lost Catherine. 1916 J. Gordon & C. J. Gordon Luck of Thirteen xxvii. 347 The archbishop..gave us each a hand as though he expected us to kiss it; he had a huge archiepispocal ring and a lot of imperiosity. 2012 D. J. Collins in K. van Liere et al. Sacred Hist. v. 106 German humanists..had been wounded by Italian imperiosity over the contrasting legacies of Roman greatness and German barbarism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1618 |
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