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单词 soilure
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soiluren.

/ˈsɔɪljʊə/
Forms: Also Middle English, 1600s soylure.
Etymology: < Old French soilleure (modern French souillure ), < soillier soil v.1
The currency of the word in the 19th cent. is probably altogether due to the instance in Shakespeare.
1.
a. Soiling, sullying, staining.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > soiling
soilure1297
sowlingc1440
smirching1495
soiling1580
soilth1581
slurrying1600
smutching1611
aspersion1614
sullya1616
sullying1629
dabbling1677
soilage1926
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8501 Þe bodies hii gaderede & vorbarnde hom echon,..so þat hii were Wiþoute soylure in clannesse al out maisters þere.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 147 Elaine.. Guarded the sacred shield.., Then fearing rust or soilure fashion'd for it A case of silk.
1893 J. K. Ingram in Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi Pref. p. viii The writing has..suffered from friction or soilure.
b. figurative. (Common in recent literary use.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun]
staining1530
stain1563
besmearing1574
attainture1608
soilurea1616
smutting1621
sullying1629
macula1649
black wash1856
smirching1862
blear1868
smudging1873
a1616 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida (1623) iv. i. 58 He merits well to haue her, that doth seeke her, Not making any scruple of her soylure [1609 soyle], With such a hell of paine.
a1871 A. Cary in Last Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary (1873) 114 Soilure of sin..Cannot harm thy hand so pure.
1888 G. Gissing Life's Morning I. iii. 110 With minds disengaged from anxiety of casual soilure.
1890 W. Watson Poems (1906) I. 29 From soilure of ignoble touch Too grandly free.
2. A stain, blot, or blemish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > stain or spot or blemish
foulnessOE
tachea1400
tackc1425
speckc1785
soilure1840
1840 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Heath's Bk. Beauty 50 He did not conduct him amid flowers and herbage, where a fall would have only been a soilure to our frail human nature.
1895 I. Zangwill Master iii. viii Why had people besmirched the Creation with soilures of cynicism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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