单词 | unfigurative |
释义 | unfigurativeadj. (un- prefix1 1.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective] > literal unfigured1577 unmetaphorical1641 unrhetorical1680 literal1690 unfigurative1780 uncaricatured1880 non-metaphorical1941 1780 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. (1789) x. §4 The sense it bears on these occasions may be styled its literal or unfigurative sense. 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos xxi. 287 St. Peter's unfigurative Epistle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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