单词 | unlovingness |
释义 | unlovingnessn. The condition or quality of being unloving; lack of love or affection. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > want of love unlovinga1533 unlovingness1598 lovelessness1852 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Disamoreuolezza, vnkindnes, vnlouingness. a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xix. 193 A kind of heate and unlovingnesse against the doer of them. a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor ii. iii. 34 in Five New Playes (1659) Unlovingness of nature; Forgetfulness in blood. 1840 L. Hunt Seer i. 83/2 To continue to love every thing which unlovingness has not had a hand in altering. 1868 E. B. Pusey Serm. Pharisaism 7 His lack of humility engendered his unlovingness. 1951 R. Holt in E. S. Shneidman et al. Thematic Test Anal. x. 112 What a monstrous mother I had,..as horrible in her unlovingness as this one is in looks. 2009 Irish News (Nexis) 15 Sept. 2 Young people who through the accident of birth experience a childhood of neglect, of brutality and of unlovingness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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