单词 | sigher |
释义 | sighern. One who sighs. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > sighing > [noun] > one who sighs sigher1602 the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > sighing > person sigher1602 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H3v When my daughters exequies approach, Let's all turne sighers. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) ii. i. 44 I could wish my selfe a Sigh to be so chid, Or at least a Sigher to be comforted. View more context for this quotation 1703 R. Steele Tender Husband iv. i Never was there such a sigher..as that unfortunate youth, during the absence of her he loved. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber ix. 179 Their Lovers are generally constant, simple Sighers, both of a Mind. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 16 June (1939) 187 I have been no sigher in shades—no writer of ‘Songs and sonnets [etc.]’. 1879 W. Black Macleod of Dare xxx Is she likely..to prove a sigher?.. A woman who goes about the house all day sighing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1602 |
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