| 单词 | spirit-broken |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspirit-broken (b) As a modifier, with the sense ‘in spirit’, as in spirit-broken, spirit-crushed, spirit-fallen, etc. ΚΠ a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) v. 60 If not with abrupt, and spirit-fall'n tolleration, yet with that invisible web of connivencie. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxxxvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 160 Stung with the Aspiche of invadeing feare, Or Spirit-froze, bound vp in bloodlesse veines. 1792 G. Colman Surrender of Calais ii. 35 Disappointment in my life's best hopes so feeds upon my life, and wears me inward that I am nearly spirit broken. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 268 See where she flies, spirit-torn, round the heavens. 1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire i. xxv. 423 [The queen] seems heart-broken, spirit-crushed! 1922 D. H. Lawrence Fantasia of Unconscious v. 75 We are sympathy-rotten, and spirit-rotten, and idea-rotten. 1971 Church Hist. 40 99 Then, like other Ranters, he [sc. Abiezer Coppe] compares himself to the spirit-stricken Nebuchadnezzar. 1984 tr. A. V. C. Ramalingam in Jrnl. South Asian Lit. 19 17 Starvelings, poor, too proud to beg and spirit-broken, broke me. < as lemmas |
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