单词 | uncouthness |
释义 | uncouthnessn. The quality or condition of being uncouth, in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > strangeness strangenessc1386 uncouthness1435 alangeness1440 estrangeness1549 unwontness1552 unkethness1564 foreignness1611 remotenessa1719 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [noun] roughnessa1398 beggarliness1542 crabbedness1546 barbarousness1549 grossness1563 rusticity1565 barbarism1578 inconcinnity1616 ungracefulness1658 incuriosity1661 incomptness1669 uncouthness1672 unpoliteness1684 barbarity1706 inelegance1726 inelegancy1727 scabrousness1727 asperity1779 crudity1885 ineloquence1894 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 2 For vncuthnes of slike helefull habundance oft-tymes haue I gropyd my breste. 1442 in J. Raine Corr., Inventories, Acct. Rolls, & Law Proc. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 138 The unkouthness at is lyke to ryss be[tween] Sr Alexr Howme & Sr David Howme. 1600 Earle of Gowries Conspiracie sig. A3v His Highnesse beeing stricken in great admiration..of the vncouthnese of the tale. 1628 World Encompassed by Sir F. Drake 13 Notwithstanding the vncouthnes of the way. 1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa II. i. viii. 452 My Prince, by the vncouthnesse of the ground, advanceing slowly with his Battalion. 1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 220 A peculiar uncouthness and obscurity of stile. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 514. ⁋4 Some in the Habit of Laplanders,..notwithstanding the Uncouthness of their Dress, had lately obtained a Place upon the Mountain. 1778 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. Digest 47 The uncouthness of the Yoke and Goad. 1816 J. Austen Emma I. iv. 63 The uncouthness of a voice, which I heard to be wholly unmodulated. View more context for this quotation 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 154 The building whose combined uncouthness of outline and perfection of detail makes it unique among English churches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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