单词 | hurrying |
释义 | hurryingn. The action of hurry v.: †(a) harassing, disturbance, molestation, worrying (obsolete); (b) hastening under excitement or pressure. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > action of speed-making1548 hurrying1613 properation1615 1613 T. Dekker Strange Horse-race sig. B1v A Race..after the Roman fashion:..in their thundring velocity, lightning-like violence, and earth-quaking, whorrying. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) iii. vii. 108 Under most grievous hurryings and tortures of the body. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge Contents The nimbleness of Ghosts in their hurryings of Body. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 343 For all Hurrying, Hunting, Oppressing and Killing. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxiv. 15 Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2018). hurryingadj. That hurries; that hastens under pressure or excitement; moving with excited haste. ΚΠ 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 183 They were written in a careless, hurrying manner. 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 164 A hurrying message was brought, requiring Mr. C.'s attendance to a young man. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 352 Courts and alleys..alive with hurrying feet and anxious faces. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule vii. 117 The clouded and hurrying sky. Derivatives ˈhurryingly adv. ΚΠ 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxxiii. 227 Going-out of one apartment, hurryingly, as I may say, into another. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 140 They went till unobscur'd the porches shone; Which hurryingly they gain'd, and enter'd straight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1613adj.1747 |
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