单词 | emportment |
释义 | emportmentn. Now rare. A spell of anger or strong feeling; a fit of passion. Also as a mass noun: anger, fury. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] foamc900 wrethec950 woodnessc1000 eyec1175 wrathc1175 grim13.. ragingc1300 ragec1325 furyc1374 fiercetya1382 fiercenessc1384 wrotha1400 grindellaikc1400 rasedheadc1450 furor1477 windc1485 furiousnessc1500 enrage1502 furiosity1509 passion1524 ourningc1540 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). < n.1663 |
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