单词 | perniciosity |
释义 | perniciosityn. Now rare. The quality of being pernicious; wickedness, harmfulness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > quality > of a principle, practice, etc. perniciosityc1475 c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 515 (MED) It is a point of prudent direccioun, when too yveles ben concurrent, and the oon is of las malice than is the other, to suffre it rather to procede than it the whiche is of more grevance and of greter perniciosite. 1568 A. Kid Richt Fontane 71 in Bannatyne Poems (1928) II. 244 Drownand in vice & perniciosite. 1877 Brit. Jrnl. Homœop. Oct. 378 Features which remind one of the perniciosity of marsh fevers. 1910 Med. Rec. 4 June 975/2 The preexistence of such conditions naturally influences the course of true gonorrheal infections and may account for the perniciosity of some first cases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1475 |
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