Götterdämmerungn.

/ɡʊtəˈdɛmərʊŋ/

Etymology: German, lit. twilight of the gods.

Used figuratively to denote the complete downfall of a régime, institution, etc. Popularized by Wagner's use of it as the title of the last opera of the Ring cycle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > fall of a prince, nation, or regime

resiluation1513

Götterdämmerung1909

1909 C. F. G. Masterman Condition of Eng. x. 293 Mr. Wells requires for his Götterdämmerung no fresh influx of barbarian hordes.

1930 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 169 What would he [sc. Wagner] have said had he lived to see 1917 in Russia and 1918 in Germany..such a Götterdämmerung.

1934 Mind 43 388 If..Dr Inge should chance upon a plain unsophisticated Christian, and try to scare him with his Thermodynamic Götterdämmerung, would he not be told that the Heavenly Jerusalem was incomparably preferable to the Palestinian, in which there were no abiding habitations?

1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. xv. 170 The Götterdämmerung of British rule in the Holy Land was not in the Wagnerian, but rather in the Dostoievskian style.

1959 Listener 1 Oct. 525/1 A totalitarian régime must either prevail absolutely or else it heads straight for some kind of Götterdämmerung.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	götterdämmerung
释义	Götterdämmerungn. /ɡʊtəˈdɛmərʊŋ/ Etymology: German, lit. twilight of the gods. Used figuratively to denote the complete downfall of a régime, institution, etc. Popularized by Wagner's use of it as the title of the last opera of the Ring cycle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > fall of a prince, nation, or regime resiluation1513 Götterdämmerung1909 1909 C. F. G. Masterman Condition of Eng. x. 293 Mr. Wells requires for his Götterdämmerung no fresh influx of barbarian hordes. 1930 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 169 What would he [sc. Wagner] have said had he lived to see 1917 in Russia and 1918 in Germany..such a Götterdämmerung. 1934 Mind 43 388 If..Dr Inge should chance upon a plain unsophisticated Christian, and try to scare him with his Thermodynamic Götterdämmerung, would he not be told that the Heavenly Jerusalem was incomparably preferable to the Palestinian, in which there were no abiding habitations? 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. xv. 170 The Götterdämmerung of British rule in the Holy Land was not in the Wagnerian, but rather in the Dostoievskian style. 1959 Listener 1 Oct. 525/1 A totalitarian régime must either prevail absolutely or else it heads straight for some kind of Götterdämmerung. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1909
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