单词 | unreceiving |
释义 | unreceivingadj. Not receiving or receptive. Also with of. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > exclusion from communion > [adjective] unhouseled1532 unreceiving1566 uncommunicant1600 non-communicating1691 non-communicant1866 1566 in Three 15th Cent. Chron. (Camden) 138 To quyat ye matter ye churche dores wer fayn to be closyd, and ye paryschyns to departe unreseyvynge for that day. 1703 Nine Satyrs 28 None unreceiving, from the Eucharist, They..e're dismissed. a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) IV. 73 Debt can ne'er for traffick stay; Unreceiving, it, must pay. 1839 Brit. & Foreign Rev. Apr. 448 He was constantly scattering good seed on unreceiving soils. 1920 A. Castle & E. Castle John Seneschal's Margaret xviii. 267 Words that she had once heard with a callous ear and an unreceiving heart. 2006 Ann. Rev. Sociol. 32 14 Many important phenomena can go unremarked and unreceiving of special attention until someone gives them a persuasive label. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1566 |
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