| 单词 | quidamity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquiˈdamity quiˈdamity n. rare namelessness; the condition of being referred to only as ‘somebody’; (also) an instance of referring to a person in this way. ΚΠ 1892 Athenæum 9 July 65/1 A retort lay ready to his hand more effective than any indulgence in quidam-ities. 1982 T. Tanner in J. B. Elshtain Family in Polit. Thought 110 Julie's father refuses to recognize Saint-Preux as having ‘a name’. Of course he does have one..but it is one that the father effectively nullifies by his withholding of ratification. He is forced into the ontological category of quidamity. 1987 Yale French Stud. No. 73. 182 ‘Robinson Crusoe, Where are you? Where have you been?’.. The first words the castaway teaches his parrot show that his personal geography, once established, will protect him from quidamity, from the dreadful namelessness of those permanently expelled from the fortress of civilization. < as lemmas |
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