单词 | solitude |
释义 | solituden.In poetry, esp. of the 18th century, frequently more or less personified in senses 1, 2, or in a blending of these. 1. a. The state of being or living alone; loneliness, seclusion, solitariness (of persons). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] onenessOE alangenessc1330 solitudec1374 alonenessc1384 solenessc1449 solitarinessa1533 solitarnessa1578 lonelinessa1586 lonedom1612 lonesomeness1702 solitarity1811 c1374 G. Chaucer Compl. Mars 65 She hath so grete compassion on her knyght, That dwelleth in solitude til she come. 1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. B4 For sollitude best fits my cheereles mood. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 150 But little doe Men perceiue, what Solitude is, and how farre it extendeth. 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxix. 345 As the wise employ their Solitude in pious counsels. 1709 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 8 Aug. (1965) I. 5 Your letters..are the only pleasures of my solitude. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 199 There can be no more effectual means..than those of solitude and fasting. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xxxiii. 19 If from society we learn to live, 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 53 Solitude brings no escape from spiritual danger. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. vii. 237 I was not, as I used to suppose, born for solitude. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [noun] > condition of being onliness1633 solitude1642 solitariety1678 oneness1715 uniquity1789 uniqueness1802 solitarity1803 solity1882 non-plural1941 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. P4v All the arguments that I have brought For to disprove the souls strange solitude. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 133 Nor will the solitude of the Phœnix allow this denomination, for many there are of that species. View more context for this quotation 2. Loneliness (of places); remoteness from habitations; absence of life or stir. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun] > unfrequented place > unfrequentedness solitariness1560 solitude1585 infrequency1600 unfrequency1611 unhauntedness1611 untroddenness1644 unfrequentedness1651 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. x. 121 b The desart is of greate compasse and Solitude. 1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat iv. ii. sig. H4v His doores are fast lockd up, and solitude Dwels round about em. 1729 W. Law Serious Call xxi. 419 The solitude of his little Parish is become matter of great comfort to him. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vi. 170 During several hours, they travelled through regions of profound solitude. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed x, in Tales Crusaders I. 180 A bustle, equally different from the solitude of the early morning, and from the roar and fury of the subsequent engagement. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. i. 7 Then all was stillness and solitude once more. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life ix. vi. 325 The solitude of the infinite sea. 3. A lonely, unfrequented, or uninhabited place. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [noun] > unfrequented place wastenessa1500 solitude1576 solitary1594 wilderness1842 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 170 Being then a meere solitude, and on no part inhabited. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 125 There be vast solitudes and untilled Desarts on all sides. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 184 High Mountaines, and inpenitrable forests, solitudes, and frightfull deserts. 1712 Steele Let. 1 June in A. Pope Wks. (1757) VII. 180 I am at a solitude, an house between Hampstead and London. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xliii. 277 That busy scene was converted into a silent solitude. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III cii. 56 A populous solitude of bees and birds. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vi. 411 Their solitudes ceased to be solitary. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 319 An Italian of the present day avoids ruinous places and solitudes however splendid. 4. A complete absence or lack. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > [noun] > absence specifically of thing > complete vacuity1601 solitude1605 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Aa3v Hence it proceedeth that Princes find a solitude, in regard of able men to serue them. View more context for this quotation 1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 280/2 Thomas Coventry..who made a solitude of children wherever he came. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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