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单词 remissness
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remissnessn.

Brit. /rᵻˈmɪsnᵻs/, U.S. /rəˈmɪsnᵻs/, /riˈmɪsnᵻs/
Forms: see remiss adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: remiss adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < remiss adj. + -ness suffix.
1. Reduction or lack of force or intensity; diminution; weakness. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > becoming less violent, vigorous, or severe
lissc1000
remissionc1425
abatement1433
swagingc1440
remittinga1475
slacking1542
remissness1551
subsiding1607
slackening1611
relaxation1614
relentment1628
rebatement1701
relaxing1734
1551 T. Raynald tr. A. Vesalius Compend. Declar. Vertues Oile Imperial Ded. sig. Aij Comparing the remissnes of mi slender poure, with the excess of your..merites, y can conceaue but smal hope..to discarge [sic] me of so greate..a bond.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 259 Nor yet do I consent to them, that thinke Moses still continued his prayers, but that this remisnes was only in his strength.
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 259 The shortnesse makes amends for the greatnesse [of the pain], the remissnesse, for it's length.
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 315 According to the intenseness or remisness of the air.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 249. ¶5 Laughter..slackens and unbraces the Mind, weakens the Faculties, and causes a kind of Remissness and Dissolution in all the Powers of the Soul.
2. Carelessness, negligence; laxity.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [noun] > indiligence or remissness
slacknessc897
forswundennessc1175
sweeringa1300
lachesa1393
lachedness1484
indiligence1496
lachousness1496
slacking1542
remissness1570
dissoluteness1576
disassiduity1613
insedulity1679
slothingc1690
inapplication1721
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2040/1 He litle regarding their inconstancie and remisnes in Gods cause or quarel.
1575 in MSS. Rye & Hereford Corporations (1892) 48 We for remisenes in dutie to be gretly blamid.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 98 The disorders of souldiers do many times grow through remissnesse..of officers.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 7 Encouraged to villanies by the remisnesse of their lawes.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 Impunity and remissenes, for certain are the bane of a Commonwealth.
1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 478 The Reformed Churches in Christendome, now weaken'd, & neere utterly ruind, through our remissnesse, & suffering them to be..persecuted..which we tooke no notice of.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. v. 316 The order [of Knights] rather dreads the Remissness and wonted Luke-warmness of the Catholic Potentates.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 175 The remissness of behaviour in almost all the worshippers..struck me with surprize.
1774 E. Burke Let. 19 Nov. (1961) III. 78 If..we should suffer any thing to be lost..by our remissness.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xlii. 225 This remissness of the Athenians encouraged Charidemus openly to renounce the treaty.
1866 J. Gilliss Let. 18 Nov. in So Far from Home (1993) 105 I have hoped..that it was the remissness of the mail.
1883 Cent. Mag. Feb. 518/2 Helen was now tempted to be really harsh with him for his remissness.
1912 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture iii. 71 They subside thus into a habit of remissness and religious negligence, and their way of nurture becomes unparental.
1955 E. Wilson Jrnl. in Sixties: Last Jrnl. (1993) 464 Due to a misunderstanding on his part and the remissness of the treasurer's office, he had never been paid.
2004 I. M. Banks Algebraist (2005) iv. 342 Covering..his own shocking remissness in not making the refitted ships invulnerable to alien hyper-weapons.
3. Relaxation; ease. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > [noun]
restingOE
leisure13..
voidnessa1382
remissionc1384
vacationc1386
ease1393
otiosity1483
holiday1526
otiation1589
idlesse1596
vacance1610
playa1616
vacancya1616
remissness1624
recess1644
otium cum dignitate1729
dolce far niente1814
disoccupation1834
otium1850
non-work1855
kef1864
toillessness1877
1624 T. Scott Boanerges sig. E The noble Prince found a kind of remisnes and relaxation concerning his first entertainment.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. viii. 34 In profest remissnesse of mind..a man may play with the sounds..of words.
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iii. xiv, in Misc. III. 282 None but weak and honest Men can indulge themselves in Remissness or Repose.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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