| 释义 |
▪ I. severing, vbl. n.|ˈsɛvərɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb sever; an instance of this.
1382Wyclif Isa. vii. 17 Fro the daȝes of the seueryng of Effraym fro Juda. 1533Bellenden Livy i. x. (S.T.S.) I. 59 Afore þe seuering [v.r. syvering] of þare armyis. 1712Addison Spect. No. 349 ⁋7 The severing of his Head from his Body. 1805Wordsw. Prelude ix. 271 In memory of the farewells of that time, Domestic severings. 1807― Ode Intim. Immortality 192 And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, Forebode not any severing of our loves!
†b. concr. A division, partition, separated part.
c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. xiii. (1907) 83 Thei had no grete hous but a litel in the whiche thei hadde thre seuerynges as it were thre smale chambres there specially to praye and to slepe.
▪ II. ˈsevering, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That severs.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 8 Looke Loue what enuious streakes Do lace the seuering Cloudes in yonder East. a1635Sibbes Confer. Christ & Mary (1656) 92 That spirit of God..is a severing spirit. 1793Wordsw. Descr. Sk. 310 Th' insuperable rocks and severing tide. 1836J. H. Newman in Lyra Apostol. (1891) 217 Thou shrinkest now From urgent rule, and severing vow. 1888Meredith Night frost in May Poems 1898 II. 238 In this shrill hush of quietude, The ear conceived a severing cry.
Hence ˈseveringly adv.
a1390Wyclif Isa. Jerome's Prol., And off euer either rewme, now togidere, now seuerendely [Vulg. nunc commistim, nunc separatim], he ordeynede the profecie. |