单词 | welshness |
释义 | Welshnessn. The quality or state of being Welsh or of embodying Welsh characteristics. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Welsh nation > [noun] > quality or nationality Welshness?1589 Welshry1894 ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. C3v Howeeuer you take him at the worst, yet is his welchnes perswaded. 1682 W. Richards Wallography 82 The shabbiness of their Bodies and the Baoticalness [? = Boeotian dullness] of their Souls, and that, which cannot any otherwise be exprest, the Welchness of both. 1797 T. Twining in Recreat. & Stud. (1882) 203 I was much amused with the extreme Welshness of the good lady. 1865 Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 130/1 The exceeding Welshness of her tongue. 1894 Athenæum 22 Dec. 866/3 Prof. Rhys..is not backward in recognizing what may be called the Welshness of the whole body of histories concerned with the ‘blameless king’ and his knights of the Round Table. 1912 A. H. Stirling Life J. H. Stirling iv. 68 In spite of the strangeness, the Welshness, of Pontypool, Stirling had been disappointed to find that it was not in Wales. 1962 Times 7 Aug. 5/7 Perhaps the London Welsh are more interested in their Welshness than in Wales. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Apr. 51/1 It does still seem true that Britishness in Great Britain, Englishness in England, and Welshness in Wales are taken in a fairly relaxed way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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