单词 | saeva indignatio |
释义 | saeva indignation. ‘Savage indignation’, a feeling of contemptuous rage at human folly. Originally, and in later use often with reference or allusion to Swift's epitaph (see quot. 1740). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [noun] wrathc900 disdain1297 indignationc1384 heavinessc1386 gall1390 offencea1393 mislikinga1400 despitec1400 rankling?a1425 jealousyc1475 grudge1477 engaigne1489 grutch1541 outrage1572 dudgeon1573 indignance1590 indignity1596 spleen1596 resentiment1606 dolour1609 resentment1613 endugine1638 stomachosity1656 ressentiment1658 resent1680 umbrage1724 resentfulness1735 niff1777 indignancy1790 saeva indignatio1796 hard feeling1803 grudgement1845 to have a chip on one's shoulder1856 affrontedness1878 spike1890 1740 J. Swift Will in Wks. (1746) VIII. p. i Hic depositum est corpus Jonathan Swift..ubi sæva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit.] 1796 T. Green Diary Lover of Lit. (1810) 2 Was it the overflowing merely of that ‘sæva indignatio’, which in Swift, it is to be suspected, sprung less from a strong abhorrence of vice, than the exacerbations of mortified ambition? 1812 J. Foster 30 June in J. E. Ryland Life & Corr. John Foster (1846) I. v. 432 I..hunt the goats..and lose for a while the corrosion of the ‘saeva indignatio’, against wicked men in power. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists i. 32 The ‘sæva indignatio’ of which he [sc. Swift] spoke as lacerating his heart..breaks out from him in a thousand pages of his writing. 1900 F. M. Ford Let. Oct. (1965) 12 You haven't enough contempt, enough of the saeva indignatio. 1969 Punch 1 Jan. 34/1 Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle..fell short of greatness because it was too docile. It lacked saeva indignatio. 2004 Spectator (Nexis) 31 July 26 The Queen..chose to wear an outfit of stupendous purple, as if perhaps to express the saeva indignatio of her true feelings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1796 |
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