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Webster 1913 Edition
Moroseness
Mo-rose′ness
,Noun.
Sourness of temper; sulenness.
Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and
moroseness
. I. Watts.
☞ Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompanied with it. It denotes more of silence and severity, or ill-humor, than the irritability or irritation which characterizes peevishness.
Webster 1828 Edition
Moroseness
MORO'SENESS
,Noun.
Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness.
Definition 2024
moroseness
moroseness
English
Noun
moroseness (usually uncountable, plural morosenesses)
- Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter VIII
- He acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter VIII
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- “moroseness” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- moroseness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “moroseness” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.