tetricity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being tetric: crabbedness, harshness, bitterness. obsolete,uncountable
    — His Manner of Laughter is no way agreeable, opening his Mouth too wide: It even ſeems to indicate ſome Conſtraint and Pain: When he ſhuts his Mouth it gives a Tetricity to his Looks; his Noſe is all of a Piece; his Countenance wears a ſettled Gloomineſs; and his Forehead is of the uſual Size and Figure.

词源

Borrowed from Latin tetricitas, taetricitas. By surface analysis, tetric + -ity.
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