单词 | nimiety |
释义 | nimietyn. Excess, redundancy, superfluity; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity un-i-fohOE surfeita1393 superfluitya1398 over-micklea1400 overmucha1400 nimiety1542 superfluous1552 redundance1572 overflowing1574 overflush1581 overflow1589 overmeasure1591 redundancy1601 a too-much1604 pleonasm1616 overfloat1619 overmuchnessa1637 supernumerariness1652 plusa1721 supervacaneousness1730 supersaturate1860 too-muchness1875 1542 T. Becon Christmas Bankette sig. C.j Although there ought not to be ony sufficiency, much lesse any nimiete in spiritual thinges. 1601 A. Gil Treat. conc. Trinitie 60 That nimietie, or excesse of Goodnes, wherein it was created. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 204 Man may have his nimieties of expression, his diffluences, redundances..of speech. 1679 C. Ness Protestant Antidote Popery 8 Superstition, which is a nimiety and excess in religion. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 252 He was not only matchless, but even reached the line of nimiety. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 323 There is a nimiety—a too-muchness—in all Germans. 1892 Illustr. London News 17 Dec. 776/1 A more serious blemish..with most modern poetry, is nimiety, the tendency to dilute the general effect by..repetition. 1937 New Statesman 28 Aug. 311/1 A climate conspicuous for a nimiety of rain. 1985 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 443 331 Implicit in this expectation is the distinction between satiety and nimiety; that satiety is satisfying, and not identical with the nausea and distress of overeating. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1542 |
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