单词 | parrhesiastic |
释义 | parrhesiasticadj. rare before 20th cent. Candid, frank, forthright; outspoken or bold in speech or writing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective] > straightforward or direct > of persons outspeakinga1500 round1524 planiloquent1656 parrhesiastic1835 1835 R. Whately Misc. Remains (1864) 120 The supposed superiority of wisdom attributed to cautious, reserved..characters, as compared with the more open, unreserved, energetic and parrhesiastic. 1936 Classical Q. 30 218 Od. iv. 12, a parrhesiastic address to Virgil, was transferred from bk. ii by H. himself. 1952 R. Hughes in A. C. Swinburne Lesbia Brandon p. xv After D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover, Joyce Ulysses, and other freely circulated and well-nigh universally tolerated ventures in parrhesiastic pornography, Lesbia Brandon must seem harmless to Britannia. 2002 Jrnl. Feminist Cultural Stud. (Nexis) Spring 98 Havel's famous demand for ‘living within the truth’.. is revealed, according to Kiossev, as a parrhesiastic act par excellence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1835 |
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