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单词 protervity
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protervityn.

Brit. /prəˈtəːvᵻti/, U.S. /prəˈtərvədi/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s protervite, 1600s protervitie, 1600s– protervity.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French protervité; Latin protervitāt-, protervitās.
Etymology: < Middle French protervité (c1310 in Old French; French †protervité ) and its etymon classical Latin protervitāt-, protervitās boldness, impudence < protervus proterve adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare Spanish protervidad (15th cent. as protervidat, now rare), Italian protervità (a1342, now archaic).
1. Waywardness, stubbornness; impudence; petulance; an instance of this. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun]
hardiessec1300
boldness1377
malapertness?a1439
over-boldnessc1450
insolencya1513
protervitya1527
impudency1529
sauce malapert1529
petulancy1537
procacitya1538
audacity1545
sauceliness1552
forehead1564
hardihead1579
hardihood1594
outfacing1598
audaciousness1599
impudentness1599
petulancea1600
impertinency1609
impertinence1612
impudencea1616
procacya1620
affrontedness1640
brow1642
front1653
insolence1668
affrontery1679
assurance1699
effrontery1715
affrontiveness1721
swagger1725
imperence1765
cheek1823
sassiness1834
cheekiness1838
pawk1855
gall1882
chutzpah1886
face1890
mouth1891
crust1900
rind1901
smarting1902
hide1916
brass neck1937
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [noun]
crabbingc1450
protervitya1527
peevishness1561
pettishness1603
fretfulness1615
huffiness1678
froppishness1688
petulancy1712
fractiousness1727
crossness1740
petulance1785
bile1836
huffishness1841
biliousness1856
pettedness1860
strop1970
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > perverseness
frowardnessa1300
waywardnessc1384
wrawnessc1386
frowardship14..
perversity?a1425
frowardheadc1470
overthwartnessc1475
adversity1489
perversednessa1500
thrawnness1499
untowardnessa1525
protervitya1527
repugnancy1557
thrawardness1567
contrariousness1571
crookedness1576
thwartness1577
pervertness1581
peevishness1582
awkness1587
crabbedness1598
untowardliness1598
crossness1600
difficileness1612
contrariness1642
perverseness1644
cross-grainedness1652
wrong-headedness1740
pigheadedness1801
cussedness1852
orneriness1880
bloody-mindedness1910
difficultness1934
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > perverseness > instance of
frowardnessa1300
wrong-headedness1748
throw1788
protervity1882
a1527 W. Peeris Prov. in Anglia (1892) 14 480 They that of protervite will not tewne well Ve. Ve. Ve. theyre songe shalbe in hell.
1615 J. Day Festivals 233 If..we adde Protervitie, Stubbornnesse, and rude Behaviour.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 59 The queen, who formerly showed so much waspish protervity and waywardnesse.
1726 C. D'Anvers Craftsman (1727) i. 10 The peevishness and protervity of Age.
1751 tr. G. Bianchi Catherine Vizzani 41 I urged that her making Love, and with uncommon Protervity, to Women..were flagrant Instances of libidinous Disposition.
1838 G. S. Faber Inq. Hist. & Theol. Anc. Vallenses & Albigenses 516 The protervity of heretics in the very efforts of their falsehood.
1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 36 In his [sc. Hugo's] poems and plays there are the same unaccountable protervities.
1894 G. B. Shaw Let. 6 Dec. (1965) I. 469 The point at which your petulances and protervities are clearly spoiling good business.
1936 Speculum 11 56 Between the protervity of Berach and that of Mac Creiche there is little to choose.
1954 H. Nicolson Evol. Diplomatic Method i. 14 The Greeks failed owing to natural protervity and inefficient institutions.
2. figurative. An instance of physical ‘waywardness’; a bodily deformity. Obsolete. rare.
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1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 183 Some deformity in the mind..(as in certain naturall protervities in the body) they are seldome taking, but often begett a dislike.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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