单词 | enthralment |
释义 | enthralmententhrallmentn. 1. a. The state or condition of being mentally, morally, or emotionally subjugated, controlled, or captivated; the action or fact of subjugating, controlling, or capturing a person, the mind, will, attention, etc.; captivation; fascination. Also: an instance of this. ΚΠ 1579 T. Pritchard Schoole Honest & Vertuous Lyfe iv. 28 Honesty towards God..consisteth in..humble inthralment to his mercy, crauinge at his handes, to washe and mundifie..our soule. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 32 Ther can bee neither peace, nor joy, nor love, but an enthrallment. 1693 T. Beverley Evangelical Repentance unto Salvation 85 Heavy Burdens to the entanglement, and enthralment of Conscience. 1775 London Mag. Aug. 406/2 He has only to emancipate himself from the enthralment of an evil custom. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) iv. 110 My late course of even days And all their smooth enthralment. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. iv. 77 This tenderness in all probability was but the temporary enthralment of the eyes. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) VI. Index 545/2 [Religious freedom] rises from inthralments of the hand of violence. 1909 E. B. d'Auvergne L. Montez xix. 201 From this first interview dated the enthralment of the King. 1978 Southern Calif. Q. 60 146 Another reason was their total enthralment with the region and its flora. 2011 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 2 Oct. (Extra section) 4 Veitch vividly remembers sitting in the silent enthralment of the storyteller. b. In plural: things which mentally, morally, or emotionally enslave or control a person; things which captivate or fascinate. ΚΠ 1635 J. Hawkins tr. P. Aretino Paraphr. Seaven Psalmes 129 A soule..voide and free from the enthralments, the miserable subiection & slauerie of sense. 1715 tr. Thomas à Kempis Christian's Exercise i. 25 The retired empty Soul shall be enfranchised, and escape the World's Enthralments. 1787 Hist. Charles Falkland I. vii. 28 Is not Louisa held in the same soft enthralments? Does she not embrace those charms which hold her in pleasing bondage? 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 40 There are..enthralments far More self-destroying. 1874 H. W. Beecher Serm. 9th Ser. iii. 54 If they must needs have help to break away from the snares and enthrallments that beset them, give forth, we pray thee, thy strength for them. 1917 D. G. James Scepticism & Poetry vi. 181 Higher than the delicious life of the senses..enthralments far more self-destroying—love and friendship. 1977 Salmagundi Winter 130 Our ideologies, our false ontologies, our enthrallments,..our compelling but unsatisfactory fixations. 2006 U.S. News & World Rep. 13 Mar. 48/3 Book publishers had become keenly aware of growing competition from the expanding universe of Internet, computer, and video-based leisure enthrallments. 2. The action or an act of enslaving or subjugating someone; enslavement; subjugation. Also: the state or condition of being enslaved or subjugated; slavery; subjection. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > enslavement thirling1535 mancipation1577 enthraldom1582 esclavishing1583 enthralment1595 enthralling1603 beslaving1641 enslavement1692 1595 H. Chettle Piers Plainnes Prentiship sig. H4v Gladly would I remooue him, therefore his inthralment I consent vnto. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. i. 384 Cataline..was thrust into a treason for inthralment of his natiue countrey. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 171 Two brethren..sent from God to claime His people from enthralment. 1749 J. Taylor Ordinary of Newgate's Acct. 20 Feb. 10 No view of my getting clear of my then present Enthralment. 1794 G. Wakefield Remarks Gen. Orders Duke of York 33 To weep over the enthralment of our species. 1832 Bury & Norwich Post 25 Apr. The slaves at least are no consenting parties to their own enthralment. 1869 Baptist Mag. June 361/2 Even years of enthralment could not quench man's inborn desire for liberty. 1912 J. H. Stone England's Riviera xxxii. 318 He spends seven years in enthralment. 1961 Times of India 26 Oct. 8/8 The annexation, expansion or enthralment of one Arab country by another dictatorship. 2015 B.Tjällén in S. Boardman & S. Foran Barbour's Bruce & Cultural Contexts vii. 157 The wilful despotism of Edward and the enthralment of the Scots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1579 |
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