单词 | moment critique |
释义 | moment critiquen. The crucial moment in a particular process, event, experience, etc. (Also with French definite article.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant > characterized by the quality of the experience moment1872 moment critique1930 defining moment1967 1930 M. Lowry Let. Dec. (1995) 78 I told her that I would masturbate after finishing each chapter..with the result that I would run out of semen before la moment critique. 1969 ‘J. Ashford’ Prisoner at Bar xii. 116 Katherine and he, in Lovers' Lane, making love..interrupted at the moment critique. 1986 Country Life 18 Dec. 1962/1 The moment critique occurred at night and the appending [sc. falling] timber did not disturb a Benchers' dinner. 1999 Newsweek (Electronic ed.) 4 Oct. [He] is in the ‘top one percentile’ of patients exhibiting self-control at le moment critique. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1930 |
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