“seeliness”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

seeliness

释义

† ˈseeliness Obs.
Forms: 4 selines, sellines, 4–5 selynes(s(e, 4, 7 selinesse, 7 seelinesse.
[f. seely a. + -ness. OE. had ᵹesǽliᵹnes.]
1. Happiness, blessedness.
a1300Cursor M. 10816 All cristen men þat was and es, Has thorut hir þair selines.c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 813 So worldly selinesse,..Y-medled is with many a bitternesse!1387–8T. Usk Test. Love i. x. 79 For thou wenest thilke joye to be selinesse or els ese.1447O. Bokenham Seyntys, Agnes 135 Swetter þe loue, feyrere þe face, And of selynes mych gretere þe grace.c1470Harding Chron. xxx. iv, In mykill ioye and worldly selynesse.
2. Simplicity; silliness. rare.
1642D. Rogers Naaman 45 As old Eli overrules Samuels seelinesse.1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 164 Any simple Reader may easily discry the selinesse of your Arguments.

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