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单词 superfinesse
释义

superfinessen.

Brit. /suːpəfᵻˈnɛs/, /sjuːpəfᵻˈnɛs/, U.S. /ˌsupərfᵻˈnɛs/
Forms: see super- prefix and finesse n.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: super- prefix, finesse n.
Etymology: < super- prefix + finesse n. Compare later superfineness n.Apparently re-formed in the 20th cent.
Extreme refinement or delicacy.In early use depreciative with the implication of excessive or unnecessary subtlety or intricacy.
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1575 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 93 That is another fitt of your mill, violent, celestiall, incomprehensible, peremptorye superfinesse.
1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. i. v. sig. Cv I could rather content my self to be buryed..then to liue in such a miserable and precise world as this is, Oh what Superfinesse are we now grown vnto?
1582 R. Madox Diary 11 May in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 132 Al was nothing els but only the fydle fadle superfynes of Capten Skevingtons curiosytye.
1936 T. Fyfe Hellenistic Archit. v. 97 There is a marked delicacy, almost a super-finesse, in the mouldings of this period.
2011 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 24 Jan. 18 The ultra-sophistication and super-finesse of the SCOs playing for their young boss.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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