单词 | orience |
释义 | oriencen. Now rare. Oriental quality; brilliancy, lustre.In quot. 1939 probably: the Orient; with playful allusion to the literal sense of classical Latin oriēns (present participle) rising. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light orientness1519 lustrec1522 gloss1538 brightshine1573 shine1601 sheen1604 polishing1611 polish1629 oriencya1651 glare1658 glossiness1680 nitency1768 varnish1841 burnishing1851 orience1858 shininess1872 patina1931 1858 Southern Literary Messenger 27 378/2 Stones of orience, great plentie. c1865 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 120 Once it was scarce perceivèd Lent For orience of the daffodil. c1865 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 139 The heightening dawn with milky orience Rounds its still-purpling centreings of cloud. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 418 Since longsephyring sighs sought heartseast for their orience? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1858 |
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