单词 | accustomedness |
释义 | accustomednessn. The quality or fact of being usual or customary, or of being accustomed or used to something; habituation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness usagec1485 accustomedness1595 assuetude1626 customariness1632 wontedness1649 habit (or usage) is second nature1662 inuredness1682 habituality1801 usedness1871 1595 A. Golding tr. J. Hurault Politicke, Moral, & Martial Disc. ii. vii. 284 Accustomednesse vnto perill. a1628 J. Preston Saints Daily Exercise (1629) 37 Our natures are very backward to come into the Lords presence, partly by reason of his great glory,..and partly out of an accustomednes, we are not vsed to it. 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 42 Through his continual use and accustomednesse to..coin new words he makes no conscience of breaking Oaths. 1744 T. Birch Life Boyle 33 His accustomedness to bear the sudden sallies of his impetuous humour. 1793 R. Jones On Early Love & Pursuit of Wisdom 45 Accustomedness destroys all horror and fear. 1826 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 576 If Mrs Stuart should not wish it..from any accustomedness to her own Mind or other ground of preference, there will be no other occasion for me. 1876 C. E. L. Riddell Above Suspicion II. xii. 283 His Lordship stepped, with an air of dignified accustomedness..into the carriage. 1909 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 4 185 Those who do not depend upon reason must grow into feeling by accustomedness. 1974 U. K. Le Guin Dispossessed (1975) iv. 98 There was no pretense of shock or grief in Rulag's voice, only a kind of dreary accustomedness, a bleak note. 2005 J. Worthen D. H. Lawrence 247 Lawrence and Frieda..related to each other not with the accustomedness of a long-married couple, but in a stranger and less intimate way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1595 |
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