| 单词 |
amiableness |
| 释义 |
amiableness|ˈeɪmɪəb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being amiable.
1. The quality of being lovable; lovableness, loveliness. = amability.
a. of persons. Obs. or arch.
1534Whittinton Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 58 There be two maner of beauties, of the which..we must applye amyablenesse to woman, dignyte to man. 1684Baxter Cath. Commun. 32 Men must be loved..every one according to the measure of his amiableness. c1746Hervey Medit. & Cont. (1818) 192 His amiableness, who is ‘fairest among ten thousand, and altogether lovely.’ 1837J. Harris Gt. Teacher 74 The character of Christ is the conception of a being of infinite amiableness.
b. of things. Obs. or arch.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. 485 Let us inform our minds..in the excellency and loveliness of practical religion..beholding it in its own beauty and amiableness. 1753Law Lett. Import. Subj. 163 The amiableness of any virtue, or the horrid nature of any vice.
2. Kindliness of character which wins friendship; pleasing quality of heart and behaviour. = amiability.
a1719Addison (J.) The natural gaiety and amiableness of the young man wears off. 1779Johnson L.P. Wks. 1816 X. 202 The amiableness of his manners made him loved wherever he was known. 1846Blackw. Mag. LX. 482 My national frigidity was doomed to be thawed into civility, if not into amiableness. 1849Miss Porter Scot. Chiefs 133 If you knew all her goodness, all the amiableness that dwells in her gentle heart. |
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