单词 | placableness |
释义 | placablenessn. Now rare. The quality of being placable; placability. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [noun] sweetnessc1000 mildnessOE lithenessc1175 mildshipa1200 softnessa1200 mildheadc1300 softheadc1350 mansuetudec1390 tendresse1390 tendernessa1400 gentleness?c1400 mansuetiea1500 suavitude1512 treatableness1526 placability1531 lenity1548 pleasableness1556 mollity1562 fair1599 lenitude1627 placableness1647 unaggressiveness1870 1647 J. Goodwin Divine Authority Script. 153 Reduced from incontinencie unto chastity;..from passion and revenge, to a temper, and placablenesse of spirit. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xv. 75 That Softness of Nature, and Placableness of Disposition, which..he holds to be the greatest Merit in our Sex. 1768 J. Leland Advantage & Necessity of Christian Revelation II. ii. 21 They were now to regard God as their offended Sovereign and Lord: discoveries were made to them both of his justice and righteous displeasure against sin, and of his placableness towards penitent sinners. 1877 G. P. Fisher Beginnings Christianity iii. 105 Placableness and forbearance were not unknown to the Greeks of an earlier day. 1896 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 6 417 They had gained a grace of placableness. 1932 C. G. Stillman Samuel Butler xiv. 230 The more Butler read in the correspondence the more he was won by his grandfather's placableness, sincerity and hatred of all meanness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1647 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。