单词 | queerity |
释义 | queerityn. Now rare. Queerness, oddity; an instance of this; a peculiarity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > oddness oddness1611 queerity1711 particularity1712 whimsicalness1715 oddity1739 queerness1748 whimsicality1761 singularity1768 quizzity1788 eccentricity1794 quizziness1798 queerishness1803 fantasticness1825 rumness1840 weirdness1869 quirkiness1870 rumminess1872 whimsiness1909 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 17. ⁋3 No Person..shall be admitted without a visible Quearity in his Aspect, or peculiar Cast of Countenance. 1720–21 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 303 When I survey the Querity of thy Aspect. 1797 A. Fanshawe Easter Holidays 60 The life of a parson has no great charms for me. I should not like the constant black coat, with the ridiculous little head, and ten thousand other queerities! a1849 E. A. Poe Marginalia in Wks. (1864) III. 555 The pages have now and then a typographical queerity. 1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley II. 146 York city, teeming..with most delightful queerities. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 379 Yet sometimes they are found in the right guess with their queerities no telling how. 1974 H. Porter Fredo Fuss Love Life 43 Late at night the queerity and melancholy of hour-after-hour drinkers begin to show. 2003 N.Y. Observer (Nexis) 17 Nov. 1 Consider the architectural queerities of West Chelsea, both extant and planned. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1711 |
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