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‖ saeva indignatio|ˈsaɪvə ɪndɪgˈnɑːtɪəʊ|
[L.]
‘Savage indignation’, an intense feeling of contemptuous anger at human folly. (Orig. and in later allusive use with reference to the epitaph of Swift: see quot. a 1745.)
[a1745Swift Wks. (1841) I. p. lxxi/1 (epitaph) Hic depositum est corpus Jonathan. Swift... Ubi saeva indignatio Ulterius cor lacerare nequit.] 1853Thackeray Eng. Humourists of Eighteenth Cent. i. 32 The ‘sæva indignatio’ of which he [sc. Swift] spoke as lacerating his heart..breaks out from him in a thousand pages of his writing, and tears and rends him. 1900F. M. Ford Let. Oct. (1965) 12 You haven't enough contempt, enough of the saeva indignatio. 1928W. B. Yeats in Exile Spring 5 Swift beating on his breast in sibylline frenzy blind Because the heart in his blood-sodden breast had dragged him down into mankind... Saeva Indignatio and the labourer's hire. 1957R. Speaight Life H. Belloc xxi. 529 The furniture of home itself, the laughter and the love of friends—must he leave them, too? Yes, he exclaimed, with a saeva indignatio worthy of his master Swift, he must. 1969Punch 1 Jan. 34/1 There was Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle..which..fell short of greatness because it was too docile. It lacked saeva indignatio. 1972Eng. Stud. LIII. 280 It lacks the poised humour which saved Aluko's earlier characters from becoming mere sitting ducks for his saeva indignatio. |