| 单词 |
boistousness |
| 释义 |
† ˈboistousness Obs. [f. as prec. + -ness.] 1. Rudeness, roughness, lack of polish, want of gentleness or courtesy.
c1450Chaucer's Dreme 64 Of your gentilnesse I you requyre my boistousnesse Ye let passe, as thing rude. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W.) 110 Ungentylnesse or buystousnesse. 2. Coarseness, grossness, stiffness.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xxii, Þe whiche mete for his þiknesse and boystousnesse may not passe þe narow weyes..wiþ oute helpe of moysture of drynke. 1530Palsgr. 199/1 Boystuousnesse, roydevr. 3. Violence, boisterousness.
1530Palsgr. 200 Boustuousnesse, impetuosite. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xiv. 30 (R.) The boysteousnes of the winde. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxv. 17 Temptacions now and then cast us downe with their boustousnesse. |

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