| 单词 | death-doing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath-doing death-doing adj. that kills, fatal; murderous. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [adjective] murderous1535 Cainish?1541 murdering1550 murderish1550 Herodian1581 slaughterous1582 death-doing1590 carnal1597 assassinating1609 man-killing?1611 assassinous1623 cut-throat?a1625 Cain-like1656 red-handed1781 assassinative1841 manquelling1916 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. O7v Hold your dead-doing hand. a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. vi. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Put up Your frightfull Blade; and your dead-doing looke. 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. iii. 137 Those of Roan were secretly admonished by the Duke to surrender themselves upon the best tearms they could. A death doing adue, which did utterly astonish and affright them. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. ii. 8/2 Such Dead-doing Things, as Powder and Shot. 1778 J. Wesley Compassionate Addr. Inhabitants Ireland 5 Will these dead-doing men..be in haste to cut off all the old, weatherbeaten Englishmen? 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer II. iv. 34 In thy death-doing might I'll defy thee, Yellow Jack! 1915 J. J. Chapman Memories & Milestones xii. 182 Some policy which seems harmless..turns out to involve death-doing consequences. 1994 in A. Sarat & T. R. Kearns Rhetoric of Law 174 The legitimation of law's violence cannot rest securely in any sanitized renaming of the death-doing, life-destroying instrumentalities of law itself. < as lemmas |
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