单词 | remissness |
释义 | remissnessn.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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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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