单词 | involvement |
释义 | involvementn. 1. a. The action or process of involving; the fact of being involved; the condition of being implicated, entangled, or engaged; engagement, embarrassment; financial or pecuniary embarrassment. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > fact or action of being concerned with meddlingc1390 implicationc1430 mellingc1440 intermeddling1531 participation1582 mashing1607 trucka1625 concern1643 involvedness1654 interest1660 involvement1706 business1759 immixture1859 involution1886 a piece (also share) of the action1938 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > [noun] > implicit inclusion involution1611 involvement1706 introvolution1829 implication1873 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > entangling or confining > fact of being entangled engage1628 engagement1642 involvement1706 1706 A. Shields Church-communion Enquired Into (1747) 46 There is no involvement either in personal guilt or accession to the guilt of others. 1776 T. Hutchinson Diary July II. 80 With frugality [it] would enable me to spend a few weeks abroad without involvement [i.e. in debt]. 1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) v. ii. 74 He has left me in involvements, which, in a few hours, may inclose me in a prison. 1855 T. T. Lynch Lett. to Scattered (1872) vii. 94 How the innocent suffer with the evil, by necessary involvement. 1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 676 There are certain palsies..in which the muscular structure is..destroyed independently of any involvement of the nervous system. b. An involved or entangled condition, manner, or style; complicated state of affairs, imbroglio. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > complication or complexity > [noun] > a complicated state of affairs labyrinthc1450 proplexity1487 maze1531 perplexity1563 intricacy1611 intrigo1648 intrigue1660 intricoa1670 wheels within wheels1679 imbroglio1818 involvement1821 scrimmage1852 situation1954 1821 J. Foster Let. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 35 Further complaints of obscurity, involvement, &c. 1862 Fraser's Mag. July 63 The plot..depended..on the ‘involvement’ consequent on the fact that every one except her grandmother is in love with the gentle and lovely Celeste. 1883 Good Words Dec. 791/2 Evil and good..are interlaced together in seemingly hopeless involvement. 1884 Wedmore in Academy 9 Feb. 100 He sets forth his discovery, not with style..but crabbedly, with involvement. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > enfolding or enveloping > that which or one who enfolder1545 inwrapper1553 involucre1578 involument1578 burse1601 involvement1632 investment1646 involution1646 mantling1652 involucruma1676 tunicle1678 enveloping1693 envelope1715 enveloper1883 1632 H. Reynolds Mythomystes 30 Orpheus, within the foulds and inuoluements of fables, hid the misteries of his doctrine. 1632 H. Reynolds Mythomystes 80 Among such may they euer rest, safe wrapt up in their huskes and inuoluements. 3. That which is involved or implied in something; a necessary consequence or condition. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > inevitability > necessary consequence or condition involvement1879 society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [noun] > that which is involved or implied involvement1879 1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. I. 110 She will presently see the curious involvements and necessities of English society. 1881 A. C. Fraser Life Berkeley 210 The issue of creative will, rather than necessary involvements of finite experience. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1632 |
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