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单词 sundriness
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sundrinessn.

Brit. /ˈsʌndrɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈsəndrinᵻs/
Forms: see sundry adj. and pron. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sundry adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < sundry adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier sunderness n.
Originally Scottish.
1. your sundriness: (as a form of address to a group of people) all of you, one and all. Cf. all and sundry at all adj., pron., n., adv., and conj. Phrases 5b. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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