acrasy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin acrasia (“lack of temperance”), and from its etymon Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κρᾱσῐ́ᾱ (akrāsíā, “bad mixture”) (see further at acrasia) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting conditions, qualities, or states).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈækɹəsi/
Noun
[edit]acrasy (countable and uncountable, plural acrasies)
- (archaic, uncountable) Synonym of acrasia (“lack of self-control; intemperance, excess; also, irregular or unruly behaviour”); (countable) an instance of this.
- a. 1658, Anthony Farindon, a sermon
- Deſpair may have its original not onely from the acraſie and diſcompoſedneſs of the outward man […]
- 1847, The Reasoner, volume 2, page 254:
- There will be hesitancy in what is said, and irregularity in what is done, but it will be but the acrasy of youth or of genius,―the spirit and purpose of progress will be there, and we can cheerfully wait its time.
- a. 1658, Anthony Farindon, a sermon
References
[edit]- ^ “acrasy, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “acrasy, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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