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egregiosity

語源

From egregi(ous) +‎ -osity.

名詞

egregiosity (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 egregiosities)

1. (rare, uncountable) The quality of being egregious.
   Synonym: egregiousness
   • 1852 September 22, Edgefield Advertiser. […], volume XVII, number 36, Edgefield, S.C., page [2], column 3:
     HUMBUGGERY. The world is chock-full of it. Rather the most glaring specimen of it we have seen latterly is one of the last numbers of the Washington Republic, which represents Scott’s election as beyond all doubt. Whereas, the whole mass of evidence is to the contrary. And yet there are those who will swallow the _Republic_’s egregiosity without a grimace.
   • 1986, South Western Reporter, Second Series: Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas : with Key Number Annotations, West Publishing Company, page 285, column 2:
     However, in line with the instructions of the Court of Criminal Appeals in remanding this cause back to this court, there now must be made a determination of the degree of egregiosity involved in this patently erroneous submission.
   • 1991, Dio & The Journal for Hysterical Astronomy, volumes 1–3, page 124:
     How am I dazzled? In the tradition of a poetperson whose name escapes me, let me count the ways: timing, egregiosity, irony, pretended-expert evaluation, rubberstamp pseudo-refereeing of archon-Browning pseudo-research, political arrogance, technical innocence, ostracism of dissent.
   • 1994 December 30, Rick Gordon, “Ob”, in alt.peeves (Usenet):
     If, in extremis, you need a simple, absolutely goddamned foolproof remedy for any further egregiosity, a heartfelt "I fucked up." will do nicely.
   • 1994 May 29, Danny Clark, “Power-assisted kamika”, in alt.peeves (Usenet):
     Effete eastcoast establishmentarian egregiosity
   • 1996, David Langford, compiler, The Unseen University Challenge: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Quizbook, Vista, →ISBN, page 47:
     Faculty of Egregiosity
   • 1996 May 11, Simon Brooke, “This is not a personal ad!!!”, in uk.singles (Usenet):
     I sincerely think that someone who has clearly read enough of this group to see how personal adverts are welcomed here, but nevertheless persists in posting one, is a fool with a degree of egregiosity to boggle the western imagination.
   • 1997 June 12, Articulate Mandible, “Another "nova" translation story”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):
     I hereby award Herr Daniel the Gottem Big medal with two, count 'em, two, oakleaf clusters, a fine of two-fifty, and sixty days in the slam for the egregiosity of the act.
   • 1998 May 26, pingouin, “Another proposed change”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.ny-rangers (Usenet):
     > I bet there will be, in the next 5 years, a back loaded contract so egregious,
     > that the league will consider actions that negate both front and back loaded
     > contracts...perhaps by requiring that any signing bonus and any playoff bonus
     > be paid out over the tenure of the contract, rather than up front.
     Now there's at least two owners, Peter Karmanos (Carolina) and Ted Turner (Atlanta), who would gladly break the egregiosity meter, even if their teams are only drawing 6,000 fans a game--actually, low attendance would probably be a motivation for it; that's how Sergei got signed.
   • 1999 March 1, Paul Lutus, “DAMAGED error?”, in comp.lang.c++ (Usenet):
     << Thanks for being gentle on this off-topic reminder - someone seeing the error for the first time wouldn't know if it was compiler-specific or not.
     >>
     It was because he successfully cleared my egregiosity detector :) People who say, "The buttons are the wrong color in my Windows application" may receive a response with a somewhat different tone.
   • 1999 September 23, Paul Strong, “Frightening, not bizarre”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet):
     Be that as it may, as in the case of your previous egregious egregiosity, thar be plenty o' species o' value, you two-bit case of green jello.
   • 2000, Floyd Kemske, Labor Day, Catbird Press, →ISBN, page 188:
     “We’re packing up Axel’s gun to send it back to Pinkerton. We can’t stand its egregiosity.”
2. (rare, countable) Someone or something that is egregious.
   • 1896 February 8, “Literary Notes”, in The Pall Mall Gazette, volume LXII, number 9633, page 3, column 2:
     And really the editor of the Author should revise his proofs. Thus he has allowed an egregious person to perpetrate the following egregiosity. “Three of the most prominent contemporary Parisienne journalists are now in Mazas prison.” Parisienne! What next, by Polycarp or Polly Peachum?
   • 1940 February 15, “[Our London Letter: Russia And Turkey—Wireless For The Warrior—Colonial Drive—An Admiral’s Barge] Harry Tate”, in Liverpool Daily Post, number 26,392, page 4, column 5:
     By the time the four seconds had expired his informant had usually passed to other egregiosities with which to tax Tate’s perplexed, inquiring mind.
   • 1982, English Journal, volume 71, page 79, column 2:
     Egregiosities like interpersonal, and factor (except in mathematics) should be re-interred in the dictionary.
   • 1994 December 23, Lisa Pease, “Case Closed-Looking for reviews & criticism”, in alt.conspiracy.jfk (Usenet):
     In case you haven't found it - here is a recent post I put up with my top ten favorite egregiosities from Posner.
   • 1996 October 10, NawrockiT, “3 Strikes on the Umpires”, in rec.sport.baseball (Usenet):
     SI thinks the egregiosities deserve their appeal as well, but they don't say what happens if the league overturns a suspension that's already been served.
   • 1999, Mike A. Males, Framing Youth: Ten Myths About the Next Generation, Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, →ISBN, pages 213 and 294:
     Kids were beamed that message loud and clear, both from Democrats and most of the public who indulged Clinton’s egregiosities and from Republicans and conservatives who condemned the president but found expedient ways to forgive the sinners in their own midst. […] The extremes to which the mainstream media can go to turn even the worst adult egregiosities into a mere teenage attitude problem were exemplified (among many examples) by the _Los Angeles Times_’ Sunday, April 5, 1998, front-page profile on “Chad MacDonald’s Short, Tragic Life.”
   • 2005 August 29, baldwin, “OT: Song-Stuck-in-Brain Check ...”, in alt.music.leonard-cohen (Usenet):
     Oh, travestatious egregiosities and egad a-mighties! LOL! Is LC an icon for you, BVD?
   • 2006 July 13, lebanonfan, “Your PERMANENT RECORD”, in Google Groups (Talk Marion County 24/7)‎[1], archived from the original on 15 August 2023:
     It was considered the most egregious of egregiosities to have any bad mark whatsoever on ones PERMANENT RECORD.
   • 2009 January 20, St. Annie, “New Yorker on Zantzinger”, in rec.music.dylan (Usenet):
     Hats off to a fine magazine ... despite the egregiosities (is that a word? it is now) in this Zantziger piece.
   • 2011 March 27, Lfh, “Further covers The Clash -- what could be next?”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet):
     And, hey, setlist boy, just remember where those two egregiosities plopped down to ruin the neighborhood.
   • 2012 July 31, M C Hamster, “How long is a second?”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
     It's only one of many olympian egregiosities. (Yes, I know that is not a word. Tough noogies, it should be.)

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