单词 | unprinceliness |
释义 | unprincelinessn. Lack of princeliness; lack of the qualities or behaviour associated with a prince. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] simplessea1393 roughnessa1398 rudenessc1405 unrefinedness1607 simpleness1648 unpolishedness1652 unpoliteness1700 sordidness1704 ungenteelness1706 indelicacy1712 unrefinement1769 ungentility1822 unprinceliness1855 outbackery1961 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness > for specific type of person uncourtliness1668 unprinceliness1855 1855 G. H. Lewes Life & Wks. Goethe I. iv. i. 310 The princely unprinceliness of selling to the Jews a diamond ring. 1860 J. Forster Deb. Grand Remonstr. 97 Never was Kirk so rebellious, in flaming up..against the sovereign's unprinceliness and ungodliness. 1904 Pall Mall Gaz. May 41/2 He knew well how his wife grieved, but ever without words, because of the tragic irony of the unprinceliness of a Prince. 2006 J. P. A. Sell Rhetoric & Wonder in Eng. Trav. Writing iv. 108 Concepts of pride, vanity and unprinceliness inevitably spring to mind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1855 |
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