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单词 gazing
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gazingn.

/ˈɡeɪzɪŋ/
Etymology: < gaze v. + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of gaze v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > staring or gazing
poring1340
staring1440
gazingc1502
goggling1540
gazement1596
stare-you-out1932
c1502 in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1808) II. *286 It is sen, great resorte often to be made for wonderyng and pleasure in their owne sights, and in wolgar speche callid gasyngs, of the rud and unlernyd persons.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. L.jv Fro tauerne to tauerne, from one gasing to another.
1552 H. Latimer Fruitf. Serm. (1584) 273 Theyr teaching..begate a wondering and a gazing. Euery body maruelled at it & was desirous to talke of it.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xx. f. 158 The noyse of their running together, and the gaseing of those Deere, that are scarred..will disturbe the quiet of those wilde beastes.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §944 The Aspects that procure Loue, are not Gazings, but Sudden Glances, and Dartings of the Eye.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 92 I wanted to be out of their gazing.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 240 Malicious gazing on human calamity..is the worst form of human hate.
figurative.1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxiii. 632 The vanitie of these contemplations or rather gasings, is playnely bewrayed by the effect thereof.1659 C. Noble Moderate Answer 5 Such reproachfull things may amuse and stagger some weak judgements, and put them to gazings, and to doubtfull standings in their thoughts.
b. Something to gaze at; a spectacle. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > thing gazed or stared at
gaze1542
gazing1548
gauring-stock1559
eyemark1595
gape-seed1699
stare1753
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxvij For ye which cause thei be more fierce, more bolde & hardy then theother Irishmen, and thei be very desyrous of newe things & straunge sightes and gasynges.
2. attributive, as gazing-point, gazing-sight. Also gazing stock n.
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1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Place & Time Prayer ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 349 They see the church altogether scoured of such gay gazing sights, as their gross fantasy was greatly delighted with.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 45 The monks of Mount Athos, whose mysticism was also of this most degraded type, substituted, as a gazing-point, the navel for the nose.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

gazingadj.

/ˈɡeɪzɪŋ/
Etymology: < gaze v. + -ing suffix2.
That gazes, in senses of the verb.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > staring or gazing
gloringa1400
staring1483
glowering?a1513
gazing1553
gauring1558
gawish1567
gazeful1595
gawking1817
gazy1883
whole-eyed1911
1553 H. Latimer Fruitf. Serm. (1584) 293 b Nowe hee had a daughter called Dina, which gasing damsell went abroad to see the countryes.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island x. xxxvi. 143 Her rubie lips lock up from gazing sight.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 486 Neither do we deck our selves with rich Ornaments to draw unto us every Gasing Eye.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 167. ⁋3 Gazing Crowds have found their Passions work'd up into Rage, or soothed into a Calm.
1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 285 So we..at last marched into Nichol, through a gazing population.
figurative.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xxii. 457 The gazing sun dries all their life away.

Derivatives

ˈgazingly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > staring or gazing
agazec1350
with all the eyes in one's head1483
gazingly1564
at a or the gaze1578
staringly1580
on (also upon) the stare1709
in a gazea1715
upon the gaze1817
1564 Bp. E. Grindal Let. 2 Jan. in Abp. M. Parker Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 201 If the communion be ministered in Paul's, it will be done so tumultuously and gazingly..that the honesty of the action will be disordered.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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