单词 | aggrieving |
释义 | aggrievingn. The action of aggrieve v. (in all senses). ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 8 Aggruggynge, or a-greuynge, aggravacio, aggravamen. ?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 7 Agreuyng, aggrauacio, aggrauamen, nocumentum. 1653 tr. L. van Aitzema Notable Revol. Netherlands 137 To the more aggrieving of her affliction, wherein shee ought rather in this desolate estate to bee by all means comforted and cheer'd up. 1776 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 III. 192 For the ease, and not the aggrieving of the subject, courts of admiralty were afterwards established in the colonies. a1893 J. S. Drennan Poems & Sonnets (1895) 124 Thou smilest, and repentest thine aggrieving. 1976 J. Hoftijzer in J. Hoftijzer & G. van der Kooij Aramaic Texts from Deir ʻAllā ix. 211 The root qb' can be used to indicate the aggrieving of people..by tampering with the law or other ways of perversion of the law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). aggrievingadj. That aggrieves someone or something. ΚΠ 1663 in E. E. Atwater Hist. New Haven (1887) xx. 492 (modernized text) These things and the sad consequences thereof are so aggrieving to the generality of our people..that we cannot but present the matter to your serious consideration. 1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 126 To such a Creature as this there are two things which must be horridly offensive and agrieving. 1726 R. Newton University Educ. i. 72 Hitherto he is a Person Aggrieving, but not Aggrieved. a1748 T. James Poet. Wks. (1830) II. 183 Projectors of aggrieving schemes, Commerce to load for unprotected seas, To sell the starving many to the few. 1841 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) VI. 1 Sending spies..with directions to make every aggrieving and wounding report which rancour could devise. 1900 T. Preston Privy Council Appeals ii. 21 Leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council is usually obtained in the Court which gave the aggrieving judgment. 1921 Psychoanalytic Rev. 8 138 Anger..is projected as hate on to the aggrieving party. 2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Aug. 3 He added that it was particularly aggrieving when the North Sea operations out of Hull were ‘already under commercial pressure’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1440adj.1663 |
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