英语词汇“geniality”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

geniality

释义

geniality|dʒiːnɪˈælɪtɪ|
[f. genial a.¹ + -ity, after L. geniālitās.]
The quality of being genial.
†1. Festivity, joviality. Obs.^—1
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxx. i. 380 Such a reverent regard in that time of auncient justice carried the Genialitie [L. genialitas], even of an enemies table.
2. Agreeable warmth; mildness.
1870Proctor Other Worlds vii. 170 The imagined geniality of his [Uranus's] summer weather.
3. Sympathetic cheerfulness, good-nature, kindliness. (The sense in quot. 1652 is obscure: possibly = ‘temper, disposition’.)
1652H. L'Estrange Americans no Jewes Ep. to Rdr., If I have any waies erred in judgment..I refer my self to the Readers ferula, and offer, and pray to be pruned of riot and rankness, to an innocent, candid, geniality, and meaning.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 182 Thou..with thy vivacities and genialities..makest such strange work.1837Talfourd Mem. Lamb (L.), He had a natural geniality of disposition that endeared him to his friends.1850Kingsley Alt. Locke ii, There was a geniality in the tone to which I was unaccustomed.

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