单词 | poeticalness |
释义 | poeticalnessn. The quality of being poetical; poetical style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [noun] > poetical quality or style poeticality?1578 poeticnessa1631 poetry1654 poeticalness1835 1835 New Monthly Mag. July 314 Job stood..brooding in speechless poeticalness on his own thoughts. a1881 S. Lanier in Cent. Mag. (1883) May 135 A single fact in proof of this exceeding poeticalness will suffice. 1951 H. Brickell in O. Henry Prize Stories p. xxiv It is wrong in this connection to mean by the short poem the lyric poem. That is where poeticalness comes from. 1972 S. Hynes Edwardian Occasions 146 A man who wanted to be a poet; or perhaps in Brooke's case a man who took poeticalness as his destiny. 1997 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 26 Sept. (City ed.) (Entertainment section) c2 Throughout the evening, Crow alternated between girlish frivolity..and quiet poeticalness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1835 |
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