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单词 unterrifying
释义

unterrifyingadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈterrifying.
(un- prefix1 4.)
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adjective] > terrorless
dreadless1591
unterrifying1691
unterrific1788
terrorless1813
1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 149 What a mild and unterrifying thing is Death to such a Man as this!
1821 C. Lamb Chapter on Ears in Elia 1st Ser. The genuine unterrifying aspects of my pleasant-countenanced host and hostess.
1877 A. C. Swinburne Note C. Brontë 79 Lips already whitened..by the present shadow of unterrifying death.
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