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ˈhome-thrust, n.
[f. home adv. 4, 5.]
Fencing. A thrust which goes home to the party against whom it is directed; hence fig. and transf.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. I. 136 To giue..a slash on the arme, and to receiue a home-thrust, and full Stocada in his owne bosome. 1774Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 406 This is a home-thrust at the Mosaic law. 1862Beveridge Hist. India viii. vi. III. 479 This home-thrust his lordship appears to have had some difficulty in parrying.
So ˈhomethrust a., that is thrust home, that reaches its mark. ˈhomethrust v., to thrust home, to deliver a homethrust. ˈhomethruster, one who thrusts home.
c1680Hickeringill Wks. (1716) I. 165 God bless me from you, you are Home Thrusters. 1836J. Halley in Arnot Life (1842) 75 A weak and rather impudent effort at homethrusting. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 168 His plain, homethrust speech had wrought the multitude to what he would. |