单词 | lividly |
释义 | lividlyadv. 1. So as to give a livid appearance; with a livid colour or tinge. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adverb] > with discoloration lividly1778 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [adverb] > livid lividly1778 1778 Gen. Advertiser & Morning Intelligencer 10 Dec. What flush of innocence, or conscious honour, reddened your cheek? All was pale, lividly pale. 1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours 58 The fatal dew,..Tinging the bough till lividly it grew All ashes! 1898 J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. 9 339 He looked lividly pale, but by no means absolutely blanched. 1922 R. Sabatini Capt. Blood (U.S. ed.) xx. 237 That keen, intrepid face gleaming lividly in the light of the great poop lantern. 1984 L. P. Rudnick M. D. Luhan viii. 272 The light that is at times searingly blinding or lividly grey. 2010 Independent (Nexis) 21 Jan. (Life section) 12 The Highland Burgundy [sc. a potato variety] is lividly coloured all the way through. 2. Furiously; with great anger.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1; cf. quot. 1890. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adverb] woodlyc1000 wood1297 eagerlyc1300 rowc1325 bremelya1375 grindellyc1400 raselya1450 furiously1555 storminglya1600 bouncing mad1834 ragingly1840 stormily1860 ragefully1865 infuriately1879 lividly1890 1890 N.-Y. Times 9 Nov. 5/2 Mrs. Parsons became lividly angry when the clerk recorded her as colored, and violently declared that she was not a negress. 1915 Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. Aug. 214/1 No one knows the number of thousands of dead men... Their living mates glare lividly across that field toward the intrenched enemy. 1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain xv. 260 They were all perfectly livid about her... But they're lividly angry with somebody or another a dozen times a month. 1978 Newsweek (Nexis) 3 Apr. (Entertainment section) 60 ‘I'm so mad at my mother,’ he announces lividly. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 29 Nov. (Features section) 28 Football fans will lividly accuse a referee of bias if he awards a soft penalty to their opponents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1778 |
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