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thunderstroke|ˈθʌndəstrəʊk|
A stroke of ‘thunder’ (cf. thunder n. 1 b); the impact of a lightning-flash.
c1600Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. (1683) 5 The lofty Cedar, and the knotty Oak, Are subject more unto the thunder⁓stroak, Than the low shrubs. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. i. 204 They fell together..as by a Thunder-stroke. 1844Mrs. Browning Dead Pan vii, At the rushing thunderstroke would No sob tremble through the tree?
b. transf. and fig.
1587Golding De Mornay xxvi. (1592) 397 The others cutting words which are the thunderstrooks doubled. 1780Bentham Princ. Legisl. xiii. §4 During the first assault of passion as under a thunder-stroke the sentiments of virtue may yield for a moment. 1808Scott Marm. ii. i, When all the loud artillery spoke, With lightning-flash, and thunder⁓stroke. 1880Trevelyan Early Hist. C. J. Fox vi. (1910) 243 The thunder-stroke of such a confession..could not be parried. |