单词 | unmelting |
释义 | unmeltingadj. Not melting (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > made cold or cool > frozen > remaining frozen unthawed1611 unmelting1661 thawless1813 1661 T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War i. 8 The Winter of un-melting Frost, and Snow. 1678 E. Polhill Speculum Theologiae iv. 65 Who can look upon it with dry eyes, or an unmelting heart? 1742 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes ii. ix. 223 Nor on Armenia's frozen Plain, The loitring Snow unmelting lies [L. stat glacies iners]. 1858 Harper's Mag. Apr. 702/1 Hundreds have ventured and lost, and their frozen bodies found victims of cold Winter, who reigns unrelenting and unmelting to-day. a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 61 The butcher's unmelting icemaiden daughter veiled for ever from the hungry hug of his eyes. 2011 Canberra Times (Nexis) 11 Jan. a2 Big fat snowflakes..lay still, perfectly formed, unmelting, on my gloved hands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1661 |
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