“wiliness”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

wiliness

释义

wiliness|ˈwaɪlɪnɪs|
Forms: see wily.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or character of being wily; craftiness, cunning, guile.
c1450tr. De Imitatione i. vii. 8 Truste not in þin ovne konnyng, ner in þe wilynes of eny man livyng.c1460J. Metham Wks. (1916) 133 A mowght þe qwyche ys smal off qwantyte with thynne lyppys sygnyffyith onmyghtynes, ferffulnes, and wylynes.1556Olde Antichrist 162 b, So (with certain foxlike wylynesse) they clooke the bloody meanyng.1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 2 Neither let any man suppose that from wilines without force, nor force without iudgement, can preceed any proiect of worthy consideration.1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 181 To defend them from all Assaults and Wiliness of the Devil.1818M. W. Shelley Frankenstein xix. (1823) II. 126, I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.1878Bayne Purit. Rev. iii. 81 He had the wariness and wiliness of the cat.

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