| 释义 |
brokenness|ˈbrəʊk(ə)nnɪs|
[See -ness.]
1. The state or quality of being broken.
1666J. Smith Old Age (ed. 2) 85 Rottenness, brokenness, blackness, foulness [of the teeth]. 1757Gray Wks. (1825) II. 203 It is the brokenness, the ungrammatical position, the total subversion of the period that charms me. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 157 His pauses frequent to brokenness. a1856H. Miller Rambl. Geol. 338 As near the steep edge as the brokenness of the ground permitted.
2. fig. The state of being crushed or over-whelmed with sorrow, misfortune, etc.; contrition (obs.); prostration, despair.
1617Hieron Wks. (1628) II. 371 The spirit of them both was full of contrition..Thus was their brokennesse. Now see, how pleasing it was and how accepted. 1642Rogers Naaman 133 To prepare the soule with brokennesse and emptinesse. 1655Life in Gouge's Comm. Heb., His confessions were accompanied with much sense of sin, broakennesse of heart, self-abhorrency. 1813Byron Corsair iii. xxii, In helpless—hopeless—brokenness of heart. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 113 Mere stupefaction and brokenness of heart. |