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单词 fullnerved
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full-nerved
full-nerved adj.
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1800 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington 25 Full-nerved with patriot rage, he rushes upon the murderers of his countrymen.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 86 Dare, with fullnerved arm the rage of all.
a1918 W. Owen Compl. Poems & Fragments (1983) I. 158 Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?
1984 L. Gordon Virginia Woolf xii. 233 She re-created members of her circle as prime specimens, not necessarily the best of their kind but the most full-nerved.
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full-nerved
2. As the second element in adjectival compounds, with the sense: having nerves of a specified kind, as full-nerved, strong-nerved, weak-nerved, etc.
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a1628 F. Greville Trag. Cicero (1651) sig. B3v/1 With strong-nerv'd eys, Like a young Eagle, he confronts our Sun.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 168 Our antient sturdy barons..whose race is now so thoroughly refin'd and fritter'd away into the more delicate modern-built frame of our pap-nerv'd softlings.
1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 2 A man of a long-sighted and a strong-nerved humanity.
1802 Sketch Paris II. lx. 293 These weak-nerved females, who would have fainted at the sight of a spider mangling a fly.
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 4 Even men called brave and steady-nerved waited for company to make the journey.
1932 New Yorker 14 May 22/1 The bankers who were setting up the biggest financial pyramids of yesterday are replaced by other steel-nerved bankers today.
1995 New Yorker 30 Jan. 75/2 Historically, this trembling-nerved, loud and heroic Winchell is invisible.
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