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单词 ahenean
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aheneanadj.

Forms:

α. 1600s–1700s ahenian.

β. 1600s 1800s ahenean.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin aēneus , ahēneus , -an suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin aēneus (also ahēneus) made of copper or bronze, brazen, alteration (after adjectives in -eus : see -eous suffix) of aēnus (also ahēnus ; < aes copper, bronze, or brass (see aerarian adj.) + -nus, suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix.With the α. forms compare -ian suffix.
Obsolete.
Made of brass; resembling brass in colour, sound, etc. Cf. aeneous adj.In quot. 1869 alluding to brazen adj. 3, in the sense ‘shameless; impudent’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted
hard hearteOE
steelena1000
hardOE
hard-heartedc1225
stony?c1230
yhert1340
dure1412
hardedc1425
induratec1425
stonishc1450
hardenedc1480
steely1508
flinty1536
endured1540
stiff-stomached1540
heartless1556
indured1558
flint-hearted1560
iron1561
marble1565
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
rocky?1578
brawned1582
flinted1582
padded1583
obdure?1590
brawny1596
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
steeled1600
cauterized1603
indurated1604
flinty-hearted1629
ahenean1630
dedolent1633
brawny-hearteda1639
hard-grained1643
callous1647
upsitten1682
seared1684
petrified1720
calloused1746
coreless1813
pebble-hearted1816
hard-shelled1848
hard-plucked1857
steel trap1921
1630 F. Quarles Divine Poems 382 Thou dry-brayn'd Portick, whose ahenian brest (Transcending passion) never was opprest With griefe.
1763 W. Perfect Bavin of Bays 132 Or in ahenian coat the chaos blends Of twenty little immaterial things.
1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton III. 50 The rays of patronage..caused it to stand like the sunflower tall and gaudy, with..the ahenean face fixt upon the planet to which it owed existence.
1824 Monthly Rev. Oct. 154 The ‘Freebooter’..did in some degree redeem himself in the eyes of this fair lady, for his vandalic mutilations of..ahenean statues.
1869 Punch 27 Nov. 217/2 To say that in 1869 an architect does not understand building with metal, implies presence of another metal of the Ahenean kind.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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