单词 | eloinment |
释义 | † eloinmenteloignmentn. 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). < n.a1670 |
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