单词 | place-loving |
释义 | > as lemmasplace-loving place-loving adj. now rare ΚΠ 1807 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. 28 171 As a politician, he never emerged from the contracted sphere of a place-loving party-man. 1826 Times 10 June 2/2 An idle and unpopular sinecurist, entailed upon his country by the late Henry Dundas, of place-loving and place-dispensing memory. 1846 J. Campbell Lives Lord Chancellors V. xxxx. 27 Having, upon the introduction of Lord Macclesfield, made the acquaintance and gained the good graces of the Duke of Newcastle, on the fall of his first patron, he devoted himself to that ‘place-loving nobleman.’ 2014 A. Bonnett Unruly Places Introd. p. xiii Place is a protean and fundamental aspect of what it is to be human. We are a place-making and place-loving species. < as lemmas |
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