| 单词 | nakedness of the land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnakedness of the land 4. Openness to attack or injury; vulnerability, defencelessness. Chiefly in nakedness of the land [with allusion to Genesis 42:9; see quot. 1611] , now usually in weakened sense. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > liability to harm, loss, etc. > action or condition of exposure to harm > unprotectedness nakednessa1586 openness1587 exposedness1620 obviousness1669 defencelessness1683 unguardedness1818 unprotectedness1819 fencelessness1856 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xi. f. 289 Till seeing his time fit, both for distaunce and nakednes, he strake him so cruell a blow [etc.]. 1589 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 427 I wes allane, without fader or moder, bruthir or suster... This my naikatnes maid me to be waik. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1866) II. 40 It grieves me..to discover the nakedness of my countrymen. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlii. 9 Ye are spies: to see the nakednes of the land you are come. View more context for this quotation 1658 in H. Lumsden Rec. Trades House Glasgow (1910) I. 359 The quhick procedour..hath occasioned much discovery of our awin neakedness to strangers. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 62 Being conscious I was a true man, and not come to spy the nakedness of the land, I scarce thought I laid at their mercy. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. xiv. 215 To spy out the nakedness of Montcalm's camp from this spot. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vii. 125 The inhabitants travel the waste..pilgrim-wise and staff in hand, by narrow footpaths, through which the sand flows out and reveals the nakedness of the land. 1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere xxiii. 174 Well, guests, so you have been looking about to search into the nakedness of the land. 1989 M. Spufford Celebration i. 16 I hesitated, and still hesitate, to expose my family and myself to the nakedness the attempt to tell my story would bring. < as lemmas |
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