单词 | extremes meet |
释义 | > as lemmasExtremes meet a. That which occupies a place at either end of anything; one of two things removed as far as possible from each other, in position, nature, or condition. Also in proverb: Extremes meet. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > polarity > pole extremityc1400 polea1550 extreme1555 counter-pole1839 1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 175v Not accomptynge the extremes. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 195 Two extreames of passion, ioy and griefe. View more context for this quotation 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxv. 268 The other Extream that we likewise avoid, is [etc.]. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 18 As the English were very much out of Favour..so the Scots were on the other Extreme with the French. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 251 The intermediate space between those extremes. 1816 Ld. Byron Parisina xiv, in Siege of Corinth 80 Now in laughter, now in tears, But madly still in each extreme. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xv. 360 Extremes meet..the most furious anarchists have since become the most barefaced apostates. < as lemmas |
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