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Briskness. World English Historical Dictionary

Briskness. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Briskness [f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being brisk; smartness or sharpness of motion; liveliness, quickness, activity.

1 a. 1655.  R. Robinson, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. lxv. 10. [The rain] begets a kind of briskness in the sensitive creatures.

2 1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 125. To leap forth into nimble freaks and brisknesses.

3 1839.  Sat. Mag. Suppl., June, 253/2. The animals … are not remarkable for briskness of motion.

4 1879.  H. George, Progr. & Pov., IX. iii. The increased briskness of trade.

5   b.  Agreeable sharpness of taste, freshness; effervescent quality. Also transf. (of air) and fig.

6 1727.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Cask, The Briskness of the Drink [cider].

7 1816.  L. Hunt, Rimini, I. ix. A balmy briskness comes upon the breeze.

8 1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., I. 215. Champagne and other sparkling wines owe their briskness to the presence of carbonic acid.

9 1880.  Times, 26 July, 9/4. No man has a greater faculty of freshening up topics that have lost their briskness.

10   † c.  Abrupt blunt manner; brusqueness. Obs.

11 1668.  Pepys, Diary, 13 Nov. There is no way to rule the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke of Buckingham hath above all men.

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