单词 | lachrymosely |
释义 | lachrymoselyadv. In a lachrymose manner; tearfully, mournfully.In quot. 1867: so as to provoke tears. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adverb] weepingly1340 lachrymosely1828 blubberingly1835 tearfully1835 weepily1982 1828 Morning Jrnl. 4 Nov. 2/3 Most lachrymosely pathetic. 1834 T. Campbell Life Mrs. Siddons II. xiii. 391 As I cannot bear to think of her gloomily, I have not written her life lachrymosely. 1867 A. Slade Turkey & Crimean War 248 Aged men who remembered another order of things..were lachrymosely moved on finding themselves under the Turkish flag. 1943 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 43 302 John Lyly at the age of forty-three wrote lachrymosely of his ‘declining yeres’. 1967 I. Ehrenpreis Swift II. xxvii. 699 Lachrymosely contemplating the different world today, he finds France as strong as ever. 2007 Observer (Nexis) 2 Dec. 24 Webb lachrymosely lamented the demise of his adored mum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1828 |
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