单词 | moroseness |
释义 | morosenessn. The state or quality of being morose; morose character or disposition; a morose mood. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] melancholya1393 morosity1534 distemperature1571 distemperance1574 diverseness1574 sullennessa1586 spleen1596 distemper1604 mustinessa1625 canker?1635 distemperedness1649 moroseness1653 tetricalness1653 moodiness1694 dishumour1712 ill humour1748 sulkiness1760 stuff1787 funk1808 sumphishness1830 spleenishness1847 moodishness1857 grouchiness1925 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > moroseness or sulking morosity1534 dort1632 moroseness1653 surliness1700 sulkiness1760 sulk1792 sulks1805 sulking1880 mard1998 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes To Rdr. sig. a4v Many have..a morosenesse, censoriousnesse, and supercilious indifferency towards all, but those they count theirs. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 291 Always cheerful without the least levity, and grave without any morosness. 1692 T. Taylor in tr. G. Daniel Voy. World Cartesius Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Your Genius, wherein Philosophy is divested of the Stiffness and Moroseness of the Schools. 1746 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 44 I..know some, on whose Faces a settled Moroseness always strikes the Beholder. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iii. 66 They adopt the moroseness and ferocity of a native, without his mildness, or even his industry at home. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. i. 33 You showed no..displeasure at my moroseness. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 4 The grace and cheerfulness..have disappeared; and a spirit of moroseness..has taken their place. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror xvi. 246 Bill, somewhat recovered now from the moroseness which comes to those abruptly awakened in the small hours, was growing interested. 1989 R. MacNeil Wordstruck iii. 68 It was Hemingwayesque, as were the sodden moroseness, the black moods, that sometimes resulted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1653 |
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