单词 | thought-taking |
释义 | > as lemmasthought-taking thought-taking n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > anxiety > [noun] mourningeOE businessOE busyOE carefulnessa1000 carec1000 howc1000 embeþonkc1200 thought?c1250 cark1330 curea1340 exercisec1386 solicitude?a1412 pensienessc1450 anxietya1475 fear1490 thought-taking1508 pensement1516 carp1548 caring1556 hoe1567 thoughtfulness1569 carking1583 caretaking1625 anxiousness1636 solicitousness1636 concern1692 solicitation1693 anxietude1709 twitchiness1834 uptightness1969 1508 J. Stow Ann. Eng. (1592) 811 Christopher Hawis mercer and alderman of London, had bin so long vexed by the said promoters, that it shortned his his life by thought taking. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus in Paraphr. New Test. I. Luke xii. f. cxvv What man is hable by his carefull thought taking, to make one whyte heare of his head blacke, or one blacke heare white? 1615 S. Hieron Certaine Vsefull Medit. Death in Wks. (1620) I. 661 Exercised with a world of cares and thought-takings. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. viii. 201 Anxiety, Discontent, thought-taking, dump, trouble, anguish. 1854 W. M'Intyre Expos. Serm. on Mount iv. 129 Such an increase is a result to which the thought-taking..is never directed. 1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 135/1 The latter..kept herself constantly supplied with pleasure, while to the former fell all the thought-taking and care. 1932 A. K. Tuell Victorian at Bay 57 Always she [sc. Christina Rosetti] has kept in the palest chants of her darkest hours..that freshness never to be captured by thought-taking. 1972 Times 29 July 16/3 Even supposing that the RC padre does it all by thought-taking and will-power. < as lemmas |
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