单词 | adventureship |
释义 | adventureshipn. Now rare. Adventurousness; adventurous practice; daring or risky behaviour.In quot. 1811 as a count noun: a venture; a speculative undertaking. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > adventurous practice heroism1672 adventureship1811 1811 W. Gooch Gen. View Agric. County Cambr. xii. 231 That level..was before the adventureship good and profitable summer land. 1838 Blackburn Standard 26 Sept. The degrading propensity to mere military adventureship among the rash and needy of our own population. 1847 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 131 The inordinate impulse given to..the general spirit of adventureship. 1879 J. Morley Burke ii. 33 An unpleasant taint of speculation and financial adventureship hung at one time about the whole connexion. 1908 G. S. Fort Dr. Jameson vi. 171 His whole past, and especially his six years of adventureship and power, had ripened him for the occasion. 1974 I. Vidan in W. T. Zyla & W. M. Aycock Joseph Conrad 167 Hemingway, Malraux, and Saint-Exupéry, on the level of physical, often politically induced adventureship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1811 |
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