| 单词 | bien pensant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbien pensant bien pensant adj. and n. /bjɛ̃ pɑ̃sɑ̃/ [French pensant, present participle of penser to think.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [adjective] righteOE orthodoxc1454 catholicc1500 sound1526 catholicala1530 orthodoxastical1570 orthodoxical1577 orthodoxal1607 symmetral1660 hardshell1836 hard-shelled1842 observant1902 bien pensant1923 1923 A. Huxley On Margin 113 If you are rich, of good family and bien pensant. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 622/3 A Nationalist rising in Spain, which not only M. Maurras but all the French bien-pensants supported. 1958 Listener 7 Aug. 209/2 The pitiful, hasty funeral from which the local bien-pensants remain away. 1962 N. Mitford Water Beetle 136 In her world, Catholic, royalist, bien pensant. < as lemmas |
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