单词 | orderliness |
释义 | orderlinessn. The quality or condition of being orderly. 1. a. Conformity to order or method; regularity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > orderly condition or arrangement ordinancec1390 pointa1393 direction1407 order?a1425 framec1475 orderliness1571 form1600 decorum1610 shape1633 disposurea1637 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (viii. 7) i. f. 24v/2 Then is that perfection of orderlinesse [L. ordinis integritas] decayed. 1667 J. Corbet Disc. Relig. Eng. 17 The Reformation in England, for its Legality and Orderliness, is unquestionable. 1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 141 He is made to pay dear..by losing the good disposition of his Temper and Passions, and the orderliness of his Kind or Species. 1894 Law Times 97 387/2 A court in which speed was considered rather than orderliness. 1941 B. Miller Farewell Leicester Square ii. 34 He loved the orderliness and cleanliness of these fine, big houses. 1994 Sunday Times (Singapore) 2 Oct. 2/2 He was struck by the orderliness, good administration and abundant greenery in Zhengzhou. b. Observance of, or regard for, order; methodicalness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > [noun] > methodicalness formality1603 method1619 methodicalness1678 orderliness1830 systematicness1836 systematicity1845 methodicality1861 businesslikeness1870 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. xiii. 271 To see how the habits of orderliness..were daily slackening. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 14 Goethe..seems to have inherited..from his father..the nervous orderliness..by which he was always distinguished. 1942 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xii. 97 For the Germans, with their Teutonic orderliness, it was even more difficult. Each time they move camp they start lining little pathways with stones. 1992 P. Sandblom Creativity & Dis. 61 The lifestyle of this pioneer of puristic abstract art was marked by an obsessive orderliness; he was punctilious, even finicky. 2. Orderly quality of conduct or behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [noun] > orderly, regular, or consistent behaviour orderliness1581 consistency1715 regularity1728 steadiness1864 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 655 Who then would not wonder at such behauiour and orderlinesse? 1676 G. Towerson Explic. Decalogue xi. 318 The Honourers..particularly of our Civil or Spiritual Parents, partly from the orderliness of their behaviour. 1740–87 C. Talbot Lett. Mrs. E. Carter & Miss C. Talbot (1808) 201 I never saw a more perfect orderliness; we had no crowd going or coming, and our places were excellent. a1864 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 116 He bears testimony to the orderliness of the crowd. 1878 W. C. Russell Wreck of Grosvenor (ed. 2) II. iii. 75 In the very orderliness of their behaviour, I witnessed something more sinister than I should have found in violent conduct. 1948 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 17 131/1 They may help children to acquire patterns of orderliness in their attitudes and behavior. 1991 M. Mackie Gender Relations Canada v. 122/1 Blue-collar work..is more likely to involve values of conformity to external standards, such as orderliness, neatness and obedience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1571 |
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