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单词 emportment
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emportmentn.

Brit. /ɪmˈpɔːtm(ə)nt/, /ɛmˈpɔːtm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpɔrtm(ə)nt/, /ɛmˈpɔrtm(ə)nt/
Forms: 1600s– emportment, 1900s– emportement.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French emportement.
Etymology: < French emportement fit of passion or rage (1661 in the passage translated in 1663, or earlier) < emporter (reflexive) to be carried away by anger or passion (1632; 10th cent. in Old French in transitive use in sense ‘to transport (something), to take (something) away’ < em em- prefix + porter port v.2) + -ment -ment suffix.
Now rare.
A spell of anger or strong feeling; a fit of passion. Also as a mass noun: anger, fury.
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the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun]
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grim13..
ragingc1300
ragec1325
furyc1374
fiercetya1382
fiercenessc1384
wrotha1400
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furiousnessc1500
enrage1502
furiosity1509
passion1524
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enragement1596
enragedness1611
transportation1617
emportment1663
madness1663
foaming1709
infuriation1848
1663 J. D. tr. H. de Péréfixe de Beaumont Hist. Henry IV ii. 136 Knowing that it was the ill Government of his Predecessor which had altered their Affections, and had furnished them with the pretext..to cause their emportments [Fr. emportemens], he omitted no diligence nor no goodness which might reduce them sweetly to their Duty.
1675 tr. C. V. de Saint-Réal Conspiracy Spaniards against Venice 105 The Ambassador..answer'd with all the Emportment of an honest Man, whose Honour is unjustly attacqu'd.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) 653 Lay aside emportments so justly provoked.
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 68 At which the Ambassador and his Friend were in a furious Emportment.
1902 Era (Cornell Univ.) 34 34 Both had ungovernable tempers,..both threw off the marriage yoke with emportment, both complained bitterly against their own load.
1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 211 He had..a point of view which would have enabled him to see the comic side of Flaubert's anti-bourgeois emportement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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