poornessn.

Brit.

/ˈpɔːnəs/,

/ˈpʊənəs/, U.S.

/ˈpʊrnəs/,

/ˈpɔrnəs/

Forms: see poor adj. and n.¹ and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poor adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < poor adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier poverty n.

The quality or condition of being poor.

a. Want of wealth or possessions; indigence, poverty.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [noun]

waedlec888

wanspeedc893

wanea1100

wandrethc1175

miseasea1200

povertya1225

lowness?c1225

needc1225

orcostc1225

poorness?a1300

unwealtha1300

defaultc1300

porailc1325

straitnessa1340

poorhead1340

mischiefa1375

miseasetya1382

needinessa1382

misterc1385

indigencec1386

scarcitya1387

noughtc1400

scantnessc1400

necessity?1406

penurya1425

povertnessa1434

exilitya1439

wantc1450

scarcenessc1475

needinga1500

povertiesa1500

penurity?a1505

poortith?a1513

debility1525

tenuity1535

leanness1550

lack1555

Needham1577

inopy1581

pinching1587

dispurveyance1590

egency1600

macritude1623

penuriousness1630

indigency1631

needihood1648

necessitousness1650

egestuosity1656

straitened circumstancesa1766

unopulence1796

Queer Street1811

lowliness1834

breadlessness1860

unwealthiness1886

out-of-elbowness1890

secondary poverty1901

Short Street1920

?a1300 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 768 (MED) Þe wreche may wel misse Bote he his pouernesse In mildenesse þolie.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 1 Paralip. xxii. 14 Lo, I in my litle porenesse haue maad redi before þe expenses of þe hous of þe lord.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxiii. 322 (MED) Sche him Reproved of his distresse, Of his Angwisch, & of his porenesse.

a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 71 For powrenesse of his vicariage.

1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois i. sig. C2 See how small cause..the most poore man [has], to be grieu'd with poorenesse.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 11 Which See..for the poorness thereof, lay Bishopless for three years.

1699 T. D'Urfey 2nd Pt. Massainello ii. i. 13 As plain Massainello, (a poor Fisherman) yet in that poorness born to do great Actions.

1797 R. C. Dallas Lucretia i. 118 Poor is he that ragged goes, who not hath The wherewithal to satisfy plain Nature, And lacketh spirit to endure his poorness.

1818 Times 1 Sept. 2/2 The poorness of our treasury does not allow that activity to be bestowed on our labours which circumstances would require.

1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree xi. 160 It was not village etiquette to offer home-made cakes to one you desired to impress—that was a sign of ‘poorness’.

1980 J. Morrison & C. F. Zabusky Amer. Mosaic (1982) i. 101 When I was a little girl my life was very dull, like all the rest of the people in Russia—poorness, no time to invest in pleasure.

2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 5 July 11 You can buy million-pound homes in the leafy suburbs and minutes later be driving through areas devastated by poorness and deprivation.

b. figurative, esp. in poorness of spirit. Cf. poor adj. 1c.

ΚΠ

?a1450 (?c1400) Lay Folks' Catech. (Lamb.) (1901) 85 To schew hem meknesse and porenesse, to stoppe pride.

a1563 J. Bale Johan Baptystes Prechynge (1985) 37 Ye shall se Christ here submyt hymselfe to Baptym..in most meke humble wyse, In poornesse of sprete that we shuld folowe hym.

c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 264 In pouernesse of spyrit is spedfullest hele, And hertes of heynesse harmeþ þe soule.

1729 H. Carey Poems on Several Occasions 80 What I abhor, and esteem as a Curse, Is poorness of Spirit, not poorness in Purse.

1879 Scribner's Monthly July 344/1 I never could see no ‘poorness of spirit’, come to git at 'em.

1921 F. J. C. Hearnshaw Mediæval Contrib. Mod. Civilisation ii. 74 His substitution for the renunciation of all earthly wealth of that poorness of spirit which appropriates nothing but holds all in trust.

1956 R. C. Petry Christian Eschatol. & Social Thought iii. 60 It is the penitent, enemy-loving poorness in spirit that the Beatitudes proclaim as the way to the kingdom and its joyous, corporate life.

a. Deficiency in some desirable quality; lack of worth or excellence; inferiority, inadequacy. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [noun]

poornessa1382

povertya1387

bada1425

lessness?a1425

worsenessa1425

nethertyc1443

minority1533

badness1539

lesserness1540

evilness1547

meanness1556

punyship1581

inferiority1599

under1600

worserness1602

inferiorness1674

deteriority1692

baddishness1824

shoddiness1886

crumbiness1949

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun]

poornessa1382

chaffc1386

cold roast?1406

arse-guta1413

short end1560

under-kind1571

inferior1589

canvas-back1605

underthing1620

under-sort1655

wasteling1750

slouch1767

shamea1771

neck beefa1777

rep1786

wastrel1790

wastera1800

shoddy1862

piece1884

tinhorn1887

robbo1897

cheapie1898

buckeye1906

reach-me-down1916

dog1917

stinkeroo1934

bodgie1964

cheapo1975

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > for the needs of the case or inadequacy

poornessa1382

unsatisfactoriness1643

unsatisfaction1645

woefulness1658

inadequateness1681

inadequacy1786

a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) ix. 10 I full oft haue wittnessid me to offure in þe tabernacle of god for a liȝt porcioun þingez þat I may, ne þe ritches of anoþer man to be defoulid with þe porenes of oþer.

1609 G. Chapman Euthymiae Raptus sig. D2 Vnquiet, wicked thoughts; vnnumbred passions; Poorenesse of Counsailes; howrely fluctuations.

1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer v. 1493 Let none the poorenesse of my gifts deride.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 285. ¶4 Ovid and Lucan have many Poornesses of Expression upon this Account.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. viii. 188 To overlook these desperate assailants on account of the poorness and meanness of their qualifications.

1884 Law Times 29 Nov. 73/2 The poorness of the accommodation provided for the judges.

1914 H. James Let. 2 Mar. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) vi. 283 Look round at these small sordidries & poornesses.

1961 Times 3 May 15/3 When I go about, what strikes me at these mission places is the poorness of equipment and buildings.

2004 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 17 Apr. c4 It's impossible to know, given the general poorness of the captioning in Arabic or any other language.

†b. Want of spirit or courage; meanness of character or conduct. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > ignobleness or baseness > [noun]

villainyc1386

simplessea1393

littlenessa1400

unnoblenessc1400

unnobilitya1425

unnobletya1425

ignoblenessc1450

ignobility?a1475

vileness1549

vilityc1550

haskardy?1578

dunghillry1581

indignity1589

beggarya1616

ignoblesse?1616

poorness1625

lowness1652

meanness1660

the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > base cowardice

wickedness1487

dastardness1519

currishness1542

dastardliness1561

dastardy1588

poltroonery1590

beggar-fear1597

dastardice1603

poorness1625

low-spiritedness1641

poltroonism1644

sheepiness1663

cravenness1850

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun]

littlenessa1400

unkindnessc1400

uncharitableness1544

uncharity1548

incharity1586

poorness1625

strait-heartedness1646

meanness1660

incharitableness1679

ungenerosity1757

ungenerousness1757

smallness1813

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 26 A Habit of Dissimulation, is a Hinderance, and a Poorenesse.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 226 Those indeed..would, no question, account all refusal of a duel poorness and pusillanimity.

1822 C. Wells Stories after Nature 99 The duke unhorsed the lady, chiding Alfred for his poorness.

3. Deficiency in some good constituent; thinness, scantiness, insufficiency; unproductiveness; leanness or lack of vigour due to undernourishment.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > state of having

leannessa1000

boninessa1398

macilence?a1425

meagreness?a1425

macies?a1450

meagrec1450

povertya1475

bareness1552

extenuation1576

poorness1577

gauntness1607

lankness1611

macilencya1631

spareness1648

emaceration1656

emaciation1662

skinniness1688

angularity1822

thinness1827

pinchedness1857

scrawniness1863

scragginess1865

wizenedness1887

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth > infertility

barrennessa1425

sterility1426

poorness1577

infertility1610

leanness1612

scarceness1678

unproductiveness1777

rammel1795

unproductivity1872

unfertility1888

the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scantiness or meagreness

scantnessc1386

parcity1509

tenuity1535

scantiness1567

bareness1580

barrenness1587

exiguity1604

leanness1612

meagreness1622

thinness1623

jejuneness1626

macilencya1631

narrowness1647

straitnessa1704

flimsinessa1763

threadbareness1771

poorness1782

skimpiness1879

threadbarity1892

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 142^v Lacke of good feeding, whereof procedeth poorenesse [L. maciem], and of poorenesse [L. macies], skabbes and manginesse.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §665 The Poornesse of the Herbs..shew the Poornesse of the Earth.

1782 H. Watson in Med. Communications (1784) 1 89 From the poorness of the blood contained in its vessels.

1848 Times 22 Aug. 7/1 The reason why potatoes did not catch the disease under trees so severely was on account of the poorness and dryness of the soil.

1883 Contemp. Rev. June 904 Exhausted from poorness of diet.

1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South i. i. 23 Those who, because of the poorness of the soil on which they dwelt..were, as a group, mostly completely barred off from escape.

1963 Times 12 Mar. p. xiii/2 The poorness of pastures, water supplies and fences precluded cattle altogether.

1990 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 30 Aug. 10 One good point is made about the poorness of the soil under the rain forest. It can't support farms for much more than a few years before becoming too arid.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	poorness
释义	poornessn. Brit. /ˈpɔːnəs/, /ˈpʊənəs/, U.S. /ˈpʊrnəs/, /ˈpɔrnəs/ Forms: see poor adj. and n.¹ and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poor adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < poor adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier poverty n. The quality or condition of being poor. 1. a. Want of wealth or possessions; indigence, poverty. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] waedlec888 wanspeedc893 wanea1100 wandrethc1175 miseasea1200 povertya1225 lowness?c1225 needc1225 orcostc1225 poorness?a1300 unwealtha1300 defaultc1300 porailc1325 straitnessa1340 poorhead1340 mischiefa1375 miseasetya1382 needinessa1382 misterc1385 indigencec1386 scarcitya1387 noughtc1400 scantnessc1400 necessity?1406 penurya1425 povertnessa1434 exilitya1439 wantc1450 scarcenessc1475 needinga1500 povertiesa1500 penurity?a1505 poortith?a1513 debility1525 tenuity1535 leanness1550 lack1555 Needham1577 inopy1581 pinching1587 dispurveyance1590 egency1600 macritude1623 penuriousness1630 indigency1631 needihood1648 necessitousness1650 egestuosity1656 straitened circumstancesa1766 unopulence1796 Queer Street1811 lowliness1834 breadlessness1860 unwealthiness1886 out-of-elbowness1890 secondary poverty1901 Short Street1920 ?a1300 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 768 (MED) Þe wreche may wel misse Bote he his pouernesse In mildenesse þolie. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 1 Paralip. xxii. 14 Lo, I in my litle porenesse haue maad redi before þe expenses of þe hous of þe lord. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxiii. 322 (MED) Sche him Reproved of his distresse, Of his Angwisch, & of his porenesse. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 71 For powrenesse of his vicariage. 1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois i. sig. C2 See how small cause..the most poore man [has], to be grieu'd with poorenesse. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 11 Which See..for the poorness thereof, lay Bishopless for three years. 1699 T. D'Urfey 2nd Pt. Massainello ii. i. 13 As plain Massainello, (a poor Fisherman) yet in that poorness born to do great Actions. 1797 R. C. Dallas Lucretia i. 118 Poor is he that ragged goes, who not hath The wherewithal to satisfy plain Nature, And lacketh spirit to endure his poorness. 1818 Times 1 Sept. 2/2 The poorness of our treasury does not allow that activity to be bestowed on our labours which circumstances would require. 1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree xi. 160 It was not village etiquette to offer home-made cakes to one you desired to impress—that was a sign of ‘poorness’. 1980 J. Morrison & C. F. Zabusky Amer. Mosaic (1982) i. 101 When I was a little girl my life was very dull, like all the rest of the people in Russia—poorness, no time to invest in pleasure. 2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 5 July 11 You can buy million-pound homes in the leafy suburbs and minutes later be driving through areas devastated by poorness and deprivation. b. figurative, esp. in poorness of spirit. Cf. poor adj. 1c. ΚΠ ?a1450 (?c1400) Lay Folks' Catech. (Lamb.) (1901) 85 To schew hem meknesse and porenesse, to stoppe pride. a1563 J. Bale Johan Baptystes Prechynge (1985) 37 Ye shall se Christ here submyt hymselfe to Baptym..in most meke humble wyse, In poornesse of sprete that we shuld folowe hym. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 264 In pouernesse of spyrit is spedfullest hele, And hertes of heynesse harmeþ þe soule. 1729 H. Carey Poems on Several Occasions 80 What I abhor, and esteem as a Curse, Is poorness of Spirit, not poorness in Purse. 1879 Scribner's Monthly July 344/1 I never could see no ‘poorness of spirit’, come to git at 'em. 1921 F. J. C. Hearnshaw Mediæval Contrib. Mod. Civilisation ii. 74 His substitution for the renunciation of all earthly wealth of that poorness of spirit which appropriates nothing but holds all in trust. 1956 R. C. Petry Christian Eschatol. & Social Thought iii. 60 It is the penitent, enemy-loving poorness in spirit that the Beatitudes proclaim as the way to the kingdom and its joyous, corporate life. 2. a. Deficiency in some desirable quality; lack of worth or excellence; inferiority, inadequacy. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [noun] poornessa1382 povertya1387 bada1425 lessness?a1425 worsenessa1425 nethertyc1443 minority1533 badness1539 lesserness1540 evilness1547 meanness1556 punyship1581 inferiority1599 under1600 worserness1602 inferiorness1674 deteriority1692 baddishness1824 shoddiness1886 crumbiness1949 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun] poornessa1382 chaffc1386 cold roast?1406 arse-guta1413 short end1560 under-kind1571 inferior1589 canvas-back1605 underthing1620 under-sort1655 wasteling1750 slouch1767 shamea1771 neck beefa1777 rep1786 wastrel1790 wastera1800 shoddy1862 piece1884 tinhorn1887 robbo1897 cheapie1898 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1916 dog1917 stinkeroo1934 bodgie1964 cheapo1975 the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > for the needs of the case or inadequacy poornessa1382 unsatisfactoriness1643 unsatisfaction1645 woefulness1658 inadequateness1681 inadequacy1786 a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) ix. 10 I full oft haue wittnessid me to offure in þe tabernacle of god for a liȝt porcioun þingez þat I may, ne þe ritches of anoþer man to be defoulid with þe porenes of oþer. 1609 G. Chapman Euthymiae Raptus sig. D2 Vnquiet, wicked thoughts; vnnumbred passions; Poorenesse of Counsailes; howrely fluctuations. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer v. 1493 Let none the poorenesse of my gifts deride. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 285. ¶4 Ovid and Lucan have many Poornesses of Expression upon this Account. 1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. viii. 188 To overlook these desperate assailants on account of the poorness and meanness of their qualifications. 1884 Law Times 29 Nov. 73/2 The poorness of the accommodation provided for the judges. 1914 H. James Let. 2 Mar. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) vi. 283 Look round at these small sordidries & poornesses. 1961 Times 3 May 15/3 When I go about, what strikes me at these mission places is the poorness of equipment and buildings. 2004 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 17 Apr. c4 It's impossible to know, given the general poorness of the captioning in Arabic or any other language. †b. Want of spirit or courage; meanness of character or conduct. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > ignobleness or baseness > [noun] villainyc1386 simplessea1393 littlenessa1400 unnoblenessc1400 unnobilitya1425 unnobletya1425 ignoblenessc1450 ignobility?a1475 vileness1549 vilityc1550 haskardy?1578 dunghillry1581 indignity1589 beggarya1616 ignoblesse?1616 poorness1625 lowness1652 meanness1660 the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > base cowardice wickedness1487 dastardness1519 currishness1542 dastardliness1561 dastardy1588 poltroonery1590 beggar-fear1597 dastardice1603 poorness1625 low-spiritedness1641 poltroonism1644 sheepiness1663 cravenness1850 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] littlenessa1400 unkindnessc1400 uncharitableness1544 uncharity1548 incharity1586 poorness1625 strait-heartedness1646 meanness1660 incharitableness1679 ungenerosity1757 ungenerousness1757 smallness1813 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 26 A Habit of Dissimulation, is a Hinderance, and a Poorenesse. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 226 Those indeed..would, no question, account all refusal of a duel poorness and pusillanimity. 1822 C. Wells Stories after Nature 99 The duke unhorsed the lady, chiding Alfred for his poorness. 3. Deficiency in some good constituent; thinness, scantiness, insufficiency; unproductiveness; leanness or lack of vigour due to undernourishment. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > state of having leannessa1000 boninessa1398 macilence?a1425 meagreness?a1425 macies?a1450 meagrec1450 povertya1475 bareness1552 extenuation1576 poorness1577 gauntness1607 lankness1611 macilencya1631 spareness1648 emaceration1656 emaciation1662 skinniness1688 angularity1822 thinness1827 pinchedness1857 scrawniness1863 scragginess1865 wizenedness1887 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth > infertility barrennessa1425 sterility1426 poorness1577 infertility1610 leanness1612 scarceness1678 unproductiveness1777 rammel1795 unproductivity1872 unfertility1888 the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scantiness or meagreness scantnessc1386 parcity1509 tenuity1535 scantiness1567 bareness1580 barrenness1587 exiguity1604 leanness1612 meagreness1622 thinness1623 jejuneness1626 macilencya1631 narrowness1647 straitnessa1704 flimsinessa1763 threadbareness1771 poorness1782 skimpiness1879 threadbarity1892 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 142^v Lacke of good feeding, whereof procedeth poorenesse [L. maciem], and of poorenesse [L. macies], skabbes and manginesse. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §665 The Poornesse of the Herbs..shew the Poornesse of the Earth. 1782 H. Watson in Med. Communications (1784) 1 89 From the poorness of the blood contained in its vessels. 1848 Times 22 Aug. 7/1 The reason why potatoes did not catch the disease under trees so severely was on account of the poorness and dryness of the soil. 1883 Contemp. Rev. June 904 Exhausted from poorness of diet. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South i. i. 23 Those who, because of the poorness of the soil on which they dwelt..were, as a group, mostly completely barred off from escape. 1963 Times 12 Mar. p. xiii/2 The poorness of pastures, water supplies and fences precluded cattle altogether. 1990 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 30 Aug. 10 One good point is made about the poorness of the soil under the rain forest. It can't support farms for much more than a few years before becoming too arid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1300
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