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单词 fallen-off
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fallen-off
fallen-off adj.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [adjective] > insurgent
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. vii. 6 The Legions now in Gallia, are Full weake to vndertake our Warres against The falne-off Britaines. View more context for this quotation
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 42 It is covered with bark of a light brown colour, variegated by the vestigia of the fallen off stamina of the leaves.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. viii. 188 He is..a fallen-off branch from the good old English tree.
1919 E. F. Garesche Your Neighbor & You 143 The fallen-off Catholic, who..has let his fervor and service dwindle slowly away into tepidity and carelessness.
1998 H. Philipse Heidegger's Philos. of Being 382 According to Heidegger, the Christian metaphysical tradition is a fallen-off tradition that conceals an original source of significance and transcendence instead of keeping it open.
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