单词 | substantiveness |
释义 | substantivenessn. The quality or condition of being substantive; independent or self-existent character. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > self-sufficiency sufficiencec1384 suffisancea1450 self-sufficiency1598 autarky1617 self-dependencea1620 self-sufficience1623 self-subsistencea1631 self-support1632 self-fullness1668 self-reliance1668 self-dependency1749 self-sustainment1779 self-sustenance1786 self-sufficingness1811 substantiveness1821 self-sustentationa1832 self-containment1841 self-sufficientness1846 self-containing1850 self-supportedness1862 rugged individualism1898 1821 R. Huish Authentic Hist. Coronation George IV 150 These Coronations showed the independence and substantiveness of the Queen's right. 1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. 43 The Conference Connexion remains the representative of the Wesleyan ideas; in its gradual independence and growing substantiveness. 1893 Daily News 14 Feb. 4/3 The masculine substantiveness of the character of the people. 1901 Cent. Mag. Sept. 766/2 Their [sc. the native population's] characteristics..have not at any time revealed any considerable substantiveness of character. 1965 W. K. Wimsatt Hateful Contraries 247 These essays..represent..an effort to return to something like a Dantesque historical and individual substantiveness. 2010 N.Y. Mag. (Nexis) 18 Jan. Whatever the sources of the controversies, all three reinforced doubts about Edwards's substantiveness and authenticity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1821 |
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