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preciosity
語源
From Latin pretiōsitās (“great value; high price”),[1] probably via French préciosité.
名詞
preciosity (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 preciosities)
- (usually derogatory, uncountable) The quality of being overly refined in an affected way (often used to describe speech または writing, but also visual art かつ dress).
- 1902, R. Langton Douglas, A History of Siena, New York: E.P. Dutton, Chapter 18, p. 385,[1]
- [Italian renaissance painter Neroccio] had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
- 1914, Barrett H. Clark and Hilmar Baukhage (translators), The Art of Being Bored by Edouard Pailleron, New York: Samuel French, Act I, p. 6,[2]
- 1916, John Cowper Powys, “Oscar Wilde” in Suspended Judgments, New York: G. Arnold Shaw, p. 416,[3]
- The style of Wilde is one of the simplest in existence, but its simplicity is the very apex and consummation of the artificial. He uses Biblical language with that self-conscious preciosity—like the movements of a person walking on tiptoe in the presence of the dead—which is so different from the sturdy directness of Bunyan or the restrained rhetoric of the Church of England prayers.
- 1926, Edgar Wallace, The Black Abbot, New York: A.L. Burt, Chapter 10, p. 44,[4]
- 1902, R. Langton Douglas, A History of Siena, New York: E.P. Dutton, Chapter 18, p. 385,[1]
- (usually derogatory, countable) An instance of preciosity; something that is overly refined in an affected way.
- 1772, Thomas Nugent (translator), The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas by José Francisco de Isla, London: T. Davies and W. Flexney, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 471,[5]
- “O Father Master, is it possible! (exclaimed the Beneficiary ready to roll about the floor with laughing) is it possible that such preciosities are printed! […] ”
- 1913, John Hay Beith (as Ian Hay), Happy-Go-Lucky, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 12, p. 151,[6]
- 1940, George Orwell, “Inside the Whale” in Such, Such Were the Joys, New York: Harcourt, Brace, p. 166,[7]
- A book like Tropic of Cancer, published at such a time, must be either a tedious preciosity or something unusual, and I think a majority of the people who have read it would agree that it is not the first.
- 1772, Thomas Nugent (translator), The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas by José Francisco de Isla, London: T. Davies and W. Flexney, Volume 2, Book 6, Chapter 2, p. 471,[5]
- (obsolete, uncountable) The quality of being precious (of high value または worth).
- 1654, John Hall (translator), Lusus Serius, or, Serious Passe-Time by Michael Maier, London: Humphrey Moseley, “The Oyster,” pp. 38-39,[8]
- 1902, Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea, London: Heinemann, Appendix, pp. 490-491,[9]
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, II [Uniform ed., p. 27]:
- (obsolete, countable) Something of high value or worth.
- 1668, Henry More, Divine Dialogues, London: James Flesher, Dialogue 3, pp. 374-375,[10]
- That which is rare (we know) is with all Nations precious, and what is precious they love to appropriate and transferr upon themselves as near as they can […] . So if there be any thing more costly then another, they will hang it on their Bodies […] , such as their Ear-rings and Jewells. But these Barbarians seem to exceed them in the curiositie of their application of these Preciosities, they fully implanting them into their very Flesh, as if they were part of their natural Body.
- 1754, uncredited translator, The History of the Moravians by Heinrich Rimius, London: J. Robinson, Section 14, p. 90,[11]
- An honest Man that sits in our common Court of Justice, to decide there instead of the Sovereign according to the common Law and our Statutes, is an inestimable Preciosity for us […]
- 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, New York: Harper, 1862, Volume 2, Book 13, Chapter 12, p. 437,[12]
- 1668, Henry More, Divine Dialogues, London: James Flesher, Dialogue 3, pp. 374-375,[10]
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