单词 | morosity |
释义 | morosityn. The state or quality of being morose; morose character or disposition. Formerly also (chiefly in the 17th cent.): † an instance of moroseness (obsolete). 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 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [noun] > instance of morosity1534 dort1632 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. E.8 Leste..we shulde slyp in to morosyte, yuell to please, vnprofytable & odyous to other men. 1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse f. 4v The stoike grauitie of the ministers of the one; and the stubborne morositie of the other. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 917/1 The world is come now to such a morosity [1596 morossity] and peeuishe insensibilitie in these contentious and cauillyng dayes of ours, that [etc.]. 1625 J. Donne First Serm. King Charles 40 There may bee a Iealousie in the Husband, a Morositie in the Father, an Imperiousnesse in the Master. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. Pr. i. 102 Blot out all peevish dispositions and morosities. a1677 I. Barrow Serm. Several Occasions (1686) III. 35 No affected singularities, no supercilious morosities, no frivolous ostentations. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 5 The Levity of one, and the Morosity of another. 1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 81 The Stoical Morosities, and mis-tim'd Preachments of these Lay Baptists. 1849 F. W. Newman Soul (ed. 2) 176 At least this appears the best way of showing that no morosity mingles with distaste for such things. 1873 R. Broughton Nancy III. 146 By the utter morosity of Algy's face..I conjecture that it is a joke. 1884 C. Rogers Social Life Scotl. II. xi. 160 James VI sought to repress the prevailing morosity. 1923 E. Bowen Encounters 13 Aunt Willoughby's baffled, bearded morosity. 1965 C. H. Sisson Christopher Homm xxi. 162 Even to Dad Christopher's courtship was of some use, as an exercise for morosity. 1994 J. Reed Pop Stars 56 Morosity is like an empty grey building. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1534 |
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