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单词 distinguishment
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distinguishmentn.

Etymology: < distinguish v. + -ment suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: diˈstinguishment.
Now rare or Obsolete.
1. The action of distinguishing or fact of being distinguished; distinction: also concrete something serving to distinguish. (Common in 17th cent.)
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the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > a difference or distinction
shedc950
diversityc1340
differencea1382
differencea1393
severance1422
distinction1435
discretivec1487
differing1528
unlikeness1561
distinguishment1592
fork1639
discrimen1644
misresemblancea1693
bright line1842
1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. H4v By distinguishment of all their properties and partes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 88 Least Barbarisme..Should a like Language vse to all degrees, And mannerly distinguishment leaue out, Betwixt the Prince and Begger. View more context for this quotation
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋297 [They] have no sexuall distinguishments.
1709 Brit. Apollo: Supernumerary Paper Sept. That one grand distinguishment of Nature.
1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 529. A wilding-olive with its bitter leaves, To seamen erst a wood to be revered..But its religious stem the Teucrians With no distinguishment had cleared away, That they might hurtle on a naked field.
1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid x, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 372 Ye progeny of Daucus, full alike..past distinguishment By their own parents.
2. Clear discernment, distinct perception. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [noun] > faculty of
shedc1000
discretionc1384
tastea1400
discernment1570
distinction1609
distinguishment1642
discrimination1764
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 86 When you can bring the object of one sence to fall under the notion and distinguishment of another sence; so that the eye may as well see a Name or sound, as the eare can heare it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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