单词 | ruinousness |
释义 | ˈruinousness [f. as prec. + -ness.] 1. The quality of bringing ruin.
1659Gentl. Calling (1696) 43 The ruinousness of a perverse will is so generally understood. 1835Taits Mag. II. 407 The ruinousness of a Chancery suit. 1879M. Arnold Mixed Ess. 309 The ruinousness, to a poet, of symbols, hieroglyphics, mystifications. 2. The condition of being in ruins.
1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 78 The Ruinousness of their Walls, which to other Cities is a great Evil, was an Advantage to this. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. vii. §26. 104 When the artist suffers the mere love of ruinousness to interfere with his perception of the art of the building,..he has lost the end of his own art. |

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