单词 | masterfulness |
释义 | masterfulnessn. The quality of being masterful; skilfulness; imperiousness. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] doomc1000 strengthOE obediencea1225 bandon?c1225 mastery?c1225 authority1340 bailliec1380 obeisancea1393 baila1400 mastership?a1425 jurisdictionc1425 masterdomc1475 reformation1523 maistrice1526 swinge1531 potentness1581 obey1584 masterfulnessa1586 prevailance1592 covert1596 magistrality1603 command1608 magistery1642 magisteriality1646 sway1765 tenure1871 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xvii. sig. Ss2 That imperious maisterfulnesse, which nature giues to men aboue women. 1880 Daily Tel. 22 Nov. He had held..the two great law offices..with unmatched felicity of language and masterfulness in opinion. 1893 19th Cent. Jan. 47 Masterfulness long survives mastery. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf vi. 62 Johansen..had caught the contagion of Wolf Larsen's masterfulness. 1999 Scotsman 12 June 13/1 And yes, all that money, all that sex and all that masterfulness..is jolly hard to take. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1586 |
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