单词 | much-devouring |
释义 | > as lemmasmuch-devouring C1. Objective compounds of the noun, as much-containing, much-devouring, much-enduring, much-suffering, etc., adjs. ΚΠ c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 55 (MED) In comune speche it is vsid forto be seid of a ful mych kunnyng geometrer þat he is a wise geometrer. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 322 Then the-much-suffering-man. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 172 A..much-enduring man. 1828 E. B. Pusey Hist. Enq. Rationalist Char. I. i. 156 In his concise but deep and much-containing essay. 1873 H. W. Longfellow Interlude in Aftermath i. 34 Wood, To feed the much-devouring fire. 1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. iv. i There was now in this much-thinking little person's state of mind no mere crudity of impatience. c1951 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. (1981) 161 I do not feel much can now be done to heal the faults of this large and much-embracing tale. < as lemmas |
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