单词 | pragmaticalness |
释义 | pragmaticalnessn. Now rare. The quality of being pragmatical; esp. the officiousness, meddlesomeness; opinionatedness, dogmatism. Formerly also: †activity, assiduity (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > [noun] dogmatism1603 pragmaticalness1626 positivenessa1649 magisteriousness1650 magisterialness1651 dogmaticalness1663 dogmaticality1705 cock-surety1819 ultraism1821 pontificating1825 doctrinairism1836 absolutism1854 dogmaticism1856 doctrinaritya1869 doctrinism1872 doctrinarianism1877 cocksureness1878 cocksureism1889 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > condition of being active or unslothful pragmaticalness1626 unslothfulness1700 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > [noun] > being a busybody or officiousness businessa1466 busyty?1530 stickling1589 polypragmony1602 polypragmosyne1607 over-officiousnessa1610 officiousness1613 pragmaticalness1626 busybodyness1642 busybodying1824 busybodyism1828 pantopragmatics1860 superserviceableness1869 polypragmatism1890 1626 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God (ed. 2) sig. A3 It is onely the true feare of Gods blessed Name; a zealous forwardnesse for his glory, goodnesse, and good causes; at this day, vnhappily, and to the ruine of infinite soules, called by the world, pragmaticalnesse. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 275 Monks also hated Fryers at their hearts, because their activity and pragmaticalnesse made Monks be held as idle and uselesse. a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) 129 But pragmaticalness disturbeth the World... One busy-body often (as we find by experience) is able to disturb and pester a whole Society. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 526/2 The usefulness of these two noble drugs, introduc'd by Priests, atone for the pragmaticalness of those who oppos'd 'em. 1763 H. Spens tr. Plato Republic iv. 174 Some pragmaticalness and intermeddling in things foreign to their proper business. 1790 T. Sheridan Compl. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pragmaticalness, the quality of intermeddling without right or call. 1821–2 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (ed. 2) II. 247 He must be a concentrated essence, a varnished, powdered, representative of the vices, absurdities, hypocrisy, jealousy, pride, and pragmaticalness of his party. 1891 Sat. Rev. 28 Nov. 600/2 The pragmaticalness of the ‘fussy Bishop’. 1993 M. Goldie in J. Walsh Church of Eng. vi. 148 His temperament and ‘pragmaticalness’ placed him at odds with mainstream Church Toryism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1626 |
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