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Word Origins Dictionary
- brotherliness (n.)[brotherliness 词源字典]
- Old English broðorlichnes; see brotherly + -ness.[brotherliness etymology, brotherliness origin, 英语词源]
- Chaplinesque (adj.)
- 1921, from Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), British-born silent movie star. The surname is attested from c. 1200, from Old French chapelain "priest."
- cleanliness (n.)
- early 15c., from cleanly + -ness.
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. [John Wesley, Sermon "On Dress," c. 1791]
- godliness (n.)
- 1530s, from godly + -ness.
- holiness (n.)
- Old English halignis "holiness, sanctity, religion; holy thing;" see holy + -ness. Compare Old High German heilagnissa. As title of the Pope, it translates Latin sanctitas (until c. 600 also applied to bishops).
- homeliness (n.)
- mid-14c., from homely + -ness. Originally "meekness, gentleness," also "familiarity, intimacy; friendliness;" sense degenerated by c. 1400 to "want of refinement in manners, coarseness; presumptuousness."
- jolliness (n.)
- late 14c., from jolly + -ness.
- linesman (n.)
- 1856, "soldier in a regiment of the line," from genitive of line (n.) + man (n.). Sports sense, in reference to umpires with specific duties in games with lines (originally tennis, also ice hockey) is from 1890.
- loneliness (n.)
- 1580s, from lonely + -ness.
- loveliness (n.)
- mid-14c., "lovableness," from lovely + -ness.
- lowliness (n.)
- early 15c., from lowly + -ness.
- manliness (n.)
- late 14c., from manly + -ness.
- silliness (n.)
- "foolishness," c. 1600, from silly + -ness; a reformation of seeliness, from Old English saelignes "happiness, (good) fortune, occurrence."
- ugliness (n.)
- "repulsiveness of appearance," late 14c., from ugly + -ness.
- headlinese
- "The condensed, elliptical, or sensationalist style of language characteristic of (especially newspaper) headlines", Early 20th cent.; earliest use found in The New York Tribune. From headline + -ese.