double-dyev.
transitive. To dye twice; figurative to imbue or stain deeply.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)]
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bedyea1522
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double-dye1602
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dip1667
1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife iv. iii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 77 Did he not..double-dye your coral lips with blood?
1879 G. Meredith Egoist xxxv He is a sort of man to double-dye himself in guilt by way of vengeance.
Derivatives
double-dyed adj. dyed twice; figurative deeply imbued or stained (with guilt, etc.).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute
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stone1928
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fricking1937
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] > that is completely what is specified > specifically of a person
thorough1625
double-dyed1667
through1697
thoroughgoing1719
full-blooded1784
1667 M. Poole Dialogue between Popish Priest & Protestant (1735) 148 You are double-dy'd Idolaters.
1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (new ed.) 15 Some double-dyed Son of our Church, some Protestant in grain.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. xii. 256 A double-dyed scoundrel.
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double-dyeing n. a method of dyeing mixed woollen and cotton fabrics by which the two are dyed separately.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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