单词 | idlesse |
释义 | idlessen. archaic. Idleness, viewed in a poetic or romantic light; dolce far niente. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] restingOE leisure13.. voidnessa1382 remissionc1384 vacationc1386 ease1393 otiosity1483 holiday1526 otiation1589 idlesse1596 vacance1610 playa1616 vacancya1616 remissness1624 recess1644 otium cum dignitate1729 dolce far niente1814 disoccupation1834 otium1850 non-work1855 kef1864 toillessness1877 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa6v My daies I haue not lewdly spent, Nor spilt the blossome of my tender yeares In ydlesse . View more context for this quotation 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. v As Idless fancied in her dreaming mood. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. ii. 10 The tables were drawn, it was idlesse all. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxxiv. 107 Who thus..Hast sooth'd thine idlesse with inglorious lays. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. xi. iv. 164 The game..which amused the idlesse of that age. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 38 Necks soften of oxen in idlesse. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 12 Till Norman idlesse stock our England too? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1596 |
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