hevynesse
Middle English
editAlternative forms
edit- hevinesse, hevynes, hevines, hevynez, hevinez, heavynesse, heavinesse, heavynes, heavines, hewynesse, hewinesse, hewynes, hewines, hevenes, hevenis, heunys, heyvenys
Etymology
editFrom Old English hefiġnes; equivalent to (and influenced by) hevy + -nesse.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithevynesse (uncountable)
- The quality of having great weight; heaviness.
- Fulness or sufficiency in quantity; abundance.
- Great force or intensity.
- Great importance or meaning.
- The quality of being difficult to bear or accomplish; burdensomeness.
- Slowness or sluggishness of movement.
- A lack of vitality due to factors such as fatigue, age, disease or conscience.
- (religion) The vice of sloth or idleness.
- Woe, sorrow, grief; anxiety, unease.
- c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:
- Defaulte of slepe and hevynesse / Hath [slayne] my spirite of quyknesse / That I haue loste al lustyhede
- Lack of sleep and sorrow / Have killed the liveliness in my spirit / So that I have lost all enjoyment of life.
- c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:
- Vexation, annoyance; hostility.
- (of topic) Gravity, seriousness
- A misfortune or grievance.
- (of scent) Offensiveness, oppressiveness.
- (of sound) Depth, lowness of pitch.
- (meteorology) Inclemency.
Synonyms
edit- hevy
- (sorrow): hevyte
- hevihed
- hevischipe
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- English: heaviness
References
edit- “hevines(se, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 August 2018.
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