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单词 eloinment
释义

eloinmenteloignmentn.

Forms: Also 1600s esloinment, 1700s eloignement.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman esloignement, French éloignement: see eloin v. and -ment suffix.
Obsolete.
1. Removal to a distance.
ΚΠ
1678–96 E. Phillips New World of Words Eloinment, a removing a great way off.
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
2.
a. The space or distance between one object and another.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > [noun]
spacec1350
distancec1392
farness1523
remove1628
eloinmenta1670
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 92 The sun..appears to us no bigger than a platter..because of that esloinment..between our eyes and the object.
b. Distance, in the sense of the distant part or background of a scene or of a picture.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [noun] > the distance
farness1571
offscape1711
eloinment1716
far-away1823
far-off1866
yonder1939
1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 291 In the Eloignement, we behold Jupiter in golden Armour.
3. figurative. Remoteness in feeling or taste (from).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun]
loathc1175
unlikinga1398
mislovinga1500
scunner?a1513
misliking1563
recess1567
mislikea1569
quarrel1579
underliking1581
ill liking1586
disaffection1599
dyspathy1603
exception1604
aversation1612
disrelish1613
unrelishness1615
misaffection1621
averseness1622
distastefulnessa1625
disaffectedness1625
disrelishing1692
eloinmenta1763
unwantedness1955
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. (1768) II. 146 He discovers an eloignment from vulgar phrases.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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