| 释义 |
pauseful, a. rare.|ˈpɔːzfʊl|
[f. pause n. + -ful.]
a. Full of or abounding in pauses.
1877Furnivall Introd. Leopold Shaks. p. xcviii, Professor Spalding contrasts the broken and pauseful versification of Shakspere with Fletcher's smoother end-stopt and double-ending lines. 1892Gd. Words Oct. 658/2 Pauseful harmonies.
b. That causes a pause. (Cf. pausefully adv.)
1958Times 5 May 12/5 A pauseful finger was being laid upon his life.
Hence ˈpausefully adv. (in quot., so as to cause a pause).
1866M. Arnold Thyrsis xiv, I feel her finger light Laid pausefully upon life's headlong train. |