单词 | pathetically |
释义 | patheticallyadv. In a pathetic manner. 1. a. So as to excite pity, compassion, or sadness; in a manner full of pathos. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [adverb] rulyeOE ruefullyc1225 ruthfullyc1225 piteouslyc1300 miserably?a1425 piteousc1425 pitifullyc1450 pietously1474 touchingly?1507 lamentably1585 pitiful1600 pitiedly1661 meltingly1680 pitiably1688 pathetic1724 pathetically1740 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adverb] > in manner affecting tender emotions pathetic1724 pathetically1740 1592 G. Harvey Fovre Lett. & Certaine Sonnets iii. 29 Patheticallie intermixt with sundry dolefull pageantes. 1639 S. Pick Festum Uoluptatis ii.24 Shee'l..Pathetically Act A tragicke Story, or a fatall fact. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xvi. 338 Wilks..seem'd more pathetically to feel, look, and express his calamity. 1781 H. L. Piozzi Diary 1 Jan. in K. C. Balderston Thraliana (1942) I. 468 The Hurricane which has torn Barbadoes to pieces, & is related so pathetically in the Gazette. 1824 J. Galt Rothelan I. ii. x. 232 Pathetically ruminating on the vanity of human wishes. 1896 ‘Iota’ Quaker Grandmother 269 Her lips drooped pathetically;..her eyes filled with real tears. 1914 M. Sinclair Three Sisters xi. 32 She would sit and drink it, in the face of her family, pathetically, with little struggling gulps. 1988 E. Segal Doctors xxiv. 382 These tiny incubator patients fought pathetically for every breath. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adverb] touchingly?1507 movingly1598 affectingly1645 pathetically1652 emotively1843 affectually1947 1652 Bastard iii. ii. 40 Præ. I warrant you, Vncle, your wealth link'd with my wit, will make me an unparallell'd Gentleman... Rub. Very pathetically spoken. a1679 Earl of Orrery Mr. Anthony (1690) ii. 17 As a Learned Author has most Pathetically express'd it, Anger is a short Madness. 1705 tr. A. Dacier in tr. Aristotle Art of Poetry ii. 17 The Philosopher expresses himself more Pathetically, in the Original. 1713 J. Gay Wife of Bath ii. i. 19 I shall now speak most pathetically in thy Commendation. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) I. viii. 243 This Mr. Pelham answered finely, seriously, and pathetically. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > [adverb] tempestuously1447 gramely?c1450 passionatelyc1487 angardlyc1540 vehemently1560 pathetically1593 passionedly1611 patheticly1616 dispassionately1658 impassionately1805 full-heartedly1840 impassionedly1844 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 56 In a profound contemplation of that eleuate..capacitie..[he] most-pathetically cryed-out, o magnum miraculum Homo. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. ii. sig. G3 I do hate a foole most most pathetically. a1666 R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) viii. 105 A gracious woman pathetically pouring out her heart to God. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 191 Sighs of pleasure deeply fetch'd, so pathetically express'd. 1801 J. Austen Let. 26 May (1952) 38 Miss Holder & I adjourned after tea..to look over Prints & talk pathetically. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxxiii. 316 ‘Do see him, Mrs. Casaubon,’ said Miss Noble, pathetically. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [adverb] pathetically1681 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Anat. Brain in Five Treat. xvii. 120 The parts of the Face, usually moved pathetically and unthought of. 4. colloquial. So as to arouse ridicule or contempt; ludicrously. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [adverb] ridiculously1563 grotesquely1740 laughably1763 ridiculous1827 ludicrously1844 pathetically1937 1937 Night & Day 26 Aug. 24/1 The Tanova self-supporting sock looked pathetically gadgety on the plaster legs in the window. 1989 A. Wilentz Rainy Season (1990) ii. 23 The man she had come down with, another photographer, followed pathetically in her wake. 2000 Independent 7 Feb. ii. 1/2 My big brother..would look quite threatening if he weren't so pathetically speccy and puny. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1592 |
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