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单词 otherwise-minded
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otherwise-mindedadj.n.

Brit. /ˌʌðəwʌɪzˈmʌɪndᵻd/, U.S. /ˈˌəðərˌwaɪzˈmaɪn(d)ᵻd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: otherwise adv., minded adj.2
Etymology: < otherwise adv. + minded adj.2
Chiefly U.S.
A. adj.
Of an independent, individual, or contrary cast of mind; thinking in a different way.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > dissent or disagreement > [adjective] > holding different opinion from one specified
contrary-mindeda1555
other-minded1593
otherwise-minded1856
1611 Bible (King James) Phil. iii. 15 If in any thing ye be otherwise minded. View more context for this quotation]
1856 Bentley's Misc. July 108 Some dozen years later we find Southey thus writing to..a sufficiently ‘otherwise-minded’ correspondent.
1889 J. R. Lowell Walton in Latest Lit. Ess. (1891) 72 Many-membered periods which in unskilful hands become otherwise-minded as a herd of swine.
1917 Amer. Hist. Rev. 22 682 Otherwise-minded Rhode Island went Democratic in 1801.
1936 Pacific Affairs 9 336 The otherwise-minded and still truly Oriental mass of the population.
B. n.
With the. Otherwise-minded people as a class.
ΚΠ
1926 Polit. Sci. Q. 41 364 There is no place outside the group for the otherwise-minded.
1949 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 43 13 But meanwhile, let not America threaten the otherwise-minded.
1968 William & Mary Q. 25 585 In religion, there were a surprising number of the otherwise-minded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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