单词 | spirit-draining |
释义 | > as lemmasspirit-draining c. With present participles, agent nouns, and (occasionally) verbal nouns, forming compounds in which spirit expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in spirit-charmer, spirit-crushing, spirit-draining, spirit-hunter, spirit-lifting, spirit-monger, spirit-rousing, etc. ΚΠ 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 56 It is the spirit-inspiring Spirit. 1650 ‘R. Burthall’ Old Bridle 16 I say beware of these spirit-mongers; that their fair pretences, beguile you not. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. v. 143 In Ghostly Company of Spirit-hunters, Witch-finders [etc.]. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Choephoræ in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 323 Bitter constraint and spirit-sinking fear. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude 1 O 'tis a quiet spirit-healing nook. 1840 E. A. Poe Ligeia in Tales of Grotesque & Arabesque I. 173 An airy and spirit-lifting vision. 1858 T. Guthrie Christ & Inheritance Saints (1859) 20 The same spirit-freeing words. 1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. ii. 29 The magicians, soothsayers, and spirit-charmers. 1925 Amer. Anthropologist 27 212 The shaman is a spirit-hunter just in the same way as the spirit is a man-hunter. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 Apr. 16 Witch doctor, a common translation, is far too lurid to describe the harmonious wisdom of these Spirit Diviners. 2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Jan. 60/2 The bureaucratization of scholarship in the humanities is simply spirit-crushing. 2015 Radio Times 9 May (South/West ed.) 130/1 It's happened to us all: getting stuck with someone who is so dull or spirit-draining that feigning a life-threatening malaise seems to be the only likely way out. < as lemmas |
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