costiveness

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒstɪvnəs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or quality of being costive; constipation. uncountable
    — The new cases prove that in habitual costiveness or inactivity of the bowels, galvanism is a more valuable remedy, and that its effects are permanent .
  2. Inability to express oneself; stiffness. obsolete,uncountable
    — a reverend disputant of the same coftiveness in public elocution with myself

词源

Etymology tree
English costive
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English costiveness
From costive + -ness.
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