单词 | love-longing |
释义 | love-longingn. Longing caused by love; lovesickness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > longing felt by those in love love-longinga1350 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 65 (MED) He [sc. the Virgin] is mi solas nyht ant day, my ioie ant eke my beste play, ant eke my louelongynge. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24629 (MED) Þar lai i in mi luue [a1400 Fairf.: loue, a1400 Coll. Phys. lof] langing, Ai to mi sun dere vprising. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 493 To Alison now wol I tellen al My loue longyng. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 494 (MED) Who hath love longing & is of corage Hote, He hath ful many a myry þouȝt to-fore his delyte. 1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.iiiv And in loue longynge my harte is sore sette. 1593 M. Drayton Idea viii. sig. J3v This lad would neuer from her thought: she in loue-longing fell. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 42 The Will is the Eternal Father of the Byss; a meer Love-longing. a1835 W. Motherwell Dream of Life's Early Day in Poet. Wks. (1849) 427 Pulse sang to pulse the same lay of love-longing. 1882 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads I. i. 23/1 An elf-knight, by blowing his horn, inspires Lady Isabel with love-longing. 1922 E. Wharton Glimpses of Moon (1992) ii. 276 She..had stood there before him, helpless, inarticulate, like a school-girl a-choke with her first love-longing. 1996 M. A. Doody True Story of Novel xiv. 326 In her lovelonging Eustacia maintains a signal fire in a half-hidden place. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1350 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。