单词 | inordinance |
释义 | † inordinancen. Obsolete. An inordinate action or practice; an excess. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun] > instance(s) of outrakea1400 dissolutionc1430 immoderations1606 intemperancy1608 intemperance1613 inordinance1657 society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > condition of being undue or unwarrantable > quality of being inordinate > an inordinate practice inordinance1657 1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne xii. 342 It is a necessary duty to cut off enormity and disriegled inordinances. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling Pref. 3 Why should they not with the like disdain turn over all sensual inordinances to meer Animals? 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 150 How happy..are the English ladies, who never rise to such an inordinance of passion! 1799 R. Warner Walk Western Counties (1800) 80 That state of desultory warfare in which his own inordinances..perpetually kept him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1657 |
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