| 单词 | mortal aversion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmortal aversion c. Of enmity, hatred, etc.: pursued to the death; unappeasable, unrelenting, deadly. Hence figurative or hyperbolically, as mortal aversion, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > [adjective] > relating to deadly enmity mortalc1425 feudal1805 the world > life > death > cause of death > [adjective] > of hate or enmity deadlyc1275 capital1395 mortalc1425 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 4423 (MED) Þe dede cors to hem þei denye..of mortal enmyte Þat of houndis it shal deuoured be. a1500 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Adv.) in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 107 Thou Herode of malice most mortall. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. i. 69 From childly & fatherly kindnes to mortal enmity. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 162/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II Betwixt whome was a mortall hatred. 1665 W. Temple Let. to Sir J. Temple in Wks. (1731) II. 4 He has a mortal Hatred to the Dutch for their supporting his City of Munster against him. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome i. 462 He had a mortal Aversion to Eunuchs, that third Species of Mankind. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xix. 459 This great and unusual act of authority in the council gave the Roman pontiffs ever after a mortal antipathy to those assemblies. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 117 The Popish Chancellor became an object of mortal hatred. 1885 O. W. Holmes (title) A mortal antipathy. 1992 Sunday Times 2 Feb. (Books section) 2/3 [He] had a mortal aversion to meeting his tax liability. < as lemmas |
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