单词 | romanity |
释义 | Romanityn.ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Latin > Latin word or idiom Latinism1570 Romanity1740 1740 T. Gray Let. (1971) I. 160 Quitting my Romanities.., let me tell you, in plain English, that we come from Albano. 2. The culture, civilization, way of life, etc., of the ancient Romans; the fact of being Roman, or of having adopted Roman customs or institutions. Cf. Romanism n. 2b, 2c. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > characteristic spirit or ethos > specific Normanism1647 Romanity1789 Romanism1861 American Way1883 romanitas1918 romanità1927 1789 R. Gough in tr. W. Camden Britannia I. 69/2 Every place hereabouts bears marks of Romanity. 1789 R. Gough in tr. W. Camden Britannia I. 102/2 Against the Romanity of Yarnsbury or Yanesbury camp it has been urged that Roman camps were generally square and single trenched. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vii. 465 Not only was heathenism, but, excepting in the laws and municipal institutions, Romanity itself, absolutely extinct. 1877 J. B. Mullinger Schools Charles the Great 52 Romanity, as a system, was at an end; and in its place monastic mediæval Christianity had arisen. 1923 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Oct. 316 He attributes the ills of Europe mainly to one fundamental cause: the diminution, in the last fifteen hundred years, of Romanity in religion, politics, and jurisprudence. 1994 N. J. Higham Eng. Conquest 43 To Gildas, the Saxons, like the Picts and Scots, were responsible for the destruction of the ‘Romanity’ of Britain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1740 |
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