| 单词 |
bareness |
| 释义 |
bareness|ˈbɛənɪs|
[f. bare a. + -ness.]
1. Nakedness, lack of covering.
1552Huloet, Barenes, nuditas. c1600Shakes. Sonn. v, Beauty ore-snow'd and barenes euery where. 1810Coleridge Friend (1865) 26 A clothing even of withered leaves is better than bareness.
2. Destitution, scantiness; baldness. lit. and fig.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Pouvreté ..barenesse, want. 1590Pasquil's Apol. i. B iiij b, Compare the exposition..with the barenesse of reading. 1666South 12 Serm. (1697) I. 229 Stript of..its Privileges, and made like the primitive Church for its Bareness. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. i. 14 A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness or poverty.
†b. Leanness. Obs.
1552Huloet, Barenes or leannes of the bodye, macies. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. ii. 77 For their barenesse..they neuer learn'd that of me.
†3. Mere or simple quality; mereness. Obs.
1607Dekker Northw. Hoe ii. Wks. III. 25 My father could take vp, vpon the barenesse of his word fiue hundred pound. |
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