单词 | unpastoral |
释义 | unpastoraladj. Not pastoral (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > pastoral > not unpastoral1593 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [adjective] > not unpastoral1865 1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline xvi. 187 What is become then of these vnpastoral Aldermen? 1755 World 4 Dec. 117 I now waked indeed with somewhat more satisfaction, at first thinking, by this unpastoral dialogue, that I was once more returned safe to London. 1782 T. Warton Enq. Poems Rowley 95 This very unpathetic and unpastoral idea.., that ‘the portcullis of the castle of his heart was fallen’. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. iii. 81 The swain cursed the nymph's bad humour with very unpastoral phrase and emphasis. 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 45 The most unpastoral [character] is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed. 1908 F. E. Schelling Elizabethan Drama II. xvi. 154 Both plays are absolutely unpastoral. 1941 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 71 28/2 To start with the co-existence of unpastoral man and undomesticated animals, and discover circumstances and examples of a new relationship between them. 2011 Church Times 9 Dec. 5/4 He said that they did not want to break the law, but explore the legal and technical possibilities, in reaction to the C of E's ‘unpastoral response’ to the issue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1593 |
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