单词 | sundriness |
释义 | sundrinessn. Originally Scottish. ΚΠ 1439 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) III. 67 Till al and sindry to quhais knavlach thir present letteris sal to cum, Alexander of Ogilby of Innerquharady, gretyng in god aylestand: I mak knauyn to yhour sindrynes that [etc.]. 2. The quality or state of being diverse; diversity, variety, difference. Also occasionally: an instance of diversity or variety; a point of difference. Cf. earlier sunderness n.Apparently unattested in the 17th and 18th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] manifoldnesseOE serenessa1300 diversityc1340 sundernessc1390 diversenessa1400 seretya1400 variancea1400 sundryhead?a1425 sundrinessa1450 variety1548 multivariety1601 diversifying1611 inconstancy1646 heterogeneity1651 variousness1651 heterogeneousness1662 variegation1668 multifariousness1684 miscellaneousness1727 miscellaneity1778 versatility1802 omnifariousness1806 motleyness1819 many-headedness1847 heterology1854 unhomogeneity1862 diversitude1870 variedness1897 polycentricity1915 inhomogeneity1916 the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > a diversity > of manners or sorts diversity1382 sundrinessa1450 a1450 Ratis Raving i. 835 Misknawlege of ȝouthed, The quhilk has mekle syndrynes Tyll wnderstand. c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 27 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 347 Of fele vertuse with syndrynes he clethis þame. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) viii. l. 2443 Qwha skalis his thoucht in syndrynes [a1550 Wemyss sindrynes], In althynge it is þe les. 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Eivv They were dyuersly respected of god in consyderation of the soundrynes betwixt ye offerers. 1563 W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. L ij b The dyuersytye of braynes in divisyng, is lyke the sundrynes of beastes in engendryng. 1834 W. D. Conybeare Serm. in Church of St. John, Cardiff 12 Suiting as it were the diversity of the manners to the sundriness of the times. 1878 W. Barnes Outl. Eng. Speechcraft 86 The goodness of a speech should be sought in..its fulness of words for all things and time-takings which come, with all their sundrinesses, under the minds of men of the speech, in their common life. 1975 J. Wieners Behind State Capitol 199 Do we want confrontation? To decipher technical sundrinesses? 2005 P. Lee Light Forecast 34 The sundriness of the middle class derives from being everywhere, and therefore nowhere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1439 |
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