单词 | threatful |
释义 | threatfuladj. Full of threats; threatening. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] ticklec1325 boastful1382 threatinga1400 menacing?a1439 louringa1450 shoring1513 threatening1530 minatory1532 threatful?1567 minanta1657 minacious1660 menaceful1742 minitant1854 minitabund1890 ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter sig. Eiii The thretfull warninges of the iudgement. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 503/2 By their threatfull letters. 1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. xvii. 297 A threatful and agile whirl of his staff. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 6 Not the threatful Law of Moses,..but the royal Law, the perfect Law of liberty. 1895 G. MacDonald Lilith viii. 53 The eagle, perched with outstretched wings on the top, appeared threatful. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxxi. 391 I have read signs in heaven: nought clear, but threatful unto both you and me. 1923 M. Sadleir Desolate Splendour 199 He felt a desire still further to ingratiate himself with this threatful lord. 1932 W. Faulkner Light in August ii. 42 It still lingers about her..something dark and outlandish and threatful. Derivatives ˈthreatfully adv. threateningly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adverb] throlyc1390 threatfully1565 menacingly1591 threateninglya1616 minaciously1660 minatorilya1670 louringly1836 floggingly1840 minatorially1847 sinisterly1847 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. ii. ii. f. 50v S. Austen thretfully proficied, that, if they would not take peace..with their brethern, they should receaue..warre from their enemies. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 190 [A] flaming Semiter (threatfully held against him). 1822 T. Hood Lycus vi The spirits of sin..that..threatfully warr'd with the light. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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