| 单词 | to find vent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto find vent (in something) a. Means of outlet afforded to or obtained by a feeling, faculty, activity, etc.; expression or utterance, or the relief afforded by these. Now chiefly in the phrase to find vent (in something). ΘΚΠ society > communication > expression > [noun] expressiona1464 expressmenta1513 expressing1530 vent1603 expressure1609 express1644 venting1653 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 197 Griefes doe breake the heart if vent they misse. 1682 J. Dryden Medall 18 The swelling Poyson of the sev'ral Sects, Which, wanting vent, the Nations Health infects. 1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. Pref. p. xxviii Enthusiasm..would spend itself by free vent and amicable collision. 1803 Edwin I. 206 At his words I found my angry passions heave for vent. 1838 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 13 A malevolent feeling, which might find vent in some violent demonstration against this family. 1880 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor (ed. 3) III. xii. 113 Passion found vent in words. < as lemmas |
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