| 释义 |
ˈhumoursomeness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or character of being humoursome; capriciousness of humour.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. i. viii. (1662) 22 (heading) The factious Humoursomeness of the Atheist. 1750–1Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. III. 24 Nothing will so effectually..get the better of any humoursomeness (a strange word) as in the discipline of a school. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) IV. iv. 25, I never blame a Lady for her humoursomeness, so much, as..I blame her Mother. 1832J. C. Hare in Philol. Museum I. 445 All the weaknesses, humoursomenesses, and contradictions which are presumed in the situations. |
