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单词 vehemence
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vehemencen.

Brit. /ˈviːᵻm(ə)ns/, /ˈviːhᵻm(ə)ns/, U.S. /ˈviəməns/, /ˈvihəməns/
Forms: late Middle English vemance, late Middle English–1500s vehemens, 1500s vehimens, 1500s– vehemence, 1600s vehimence; also Scottish pre-1700 veamence.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French vehemence; Latin vehementia.
Etymology: < (i) Middle French vehemence great physical force, great or excessive passion or fervour, severity of pain or disease (all second half of the 14th cent.; French véhémence ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin vehementia vehemency n. Compare earlier vehement adj.Compare Catalan vehemència (1507), Spanish vehemencia (1490), Portuguese veemência (late 16th cent. as vehemencia ), Italian veemenza (a1535). With the pronunciation compare discussion at vehicle n.
1.
a. Great or excessive passion; eagerness or fervour of personal feeling, action, expression, etc.; passionate force, intensity, or excitement.
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun]
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun] > specifically of personal feelings or actions
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1445–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1445 §38. m. 6 Many dyvers persones bi singuler vemance and nothing of right, maliciously bi sotell imaginacions, been by dyvers suets sued by many of youre liege poeple.
a1450 (?1419–20) Friar Daw's Reply (Digby) l. 66 in P. L. Heyworth Jack Upland (1968) 75 Þi venym wiþ vehemens þou spittist al at ones.
1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iv. xi. f. cxi/1 By waye of excesse and yperbole, to declare the vehemence of hys mynde in the mater of fayth.
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Biv God shall raise other, that shall speake..with no lesse loue and vehemence.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 186 Nay, I pre'thee now, with most petitionary vehemence, tell me who it is. View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. viii. 35 Sometimes the hurt..is caused by the vehemence, or long continuance of the Passion.
1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles i. 27 Passion produces a Vehemence of Action.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 413 Hypocrisy and fraud are often not less mischievous..than impetuosity and vehemence of temper.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 54 You measure their affections by the vehemence of their expressions.
1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 29 With an almost savage vehemence of gesticulation.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1. 347 Cromwell..was quick to profit by the vehemence of the Catholic reaction.
1906 C. Hare Queen of Queens xxii. 327 He preached with so much vehemence..that many were persuaded to be baptized.
1948 R. Ellmann Yeats iv. 43 Yeats made up in vehemence for what he lacked in certainty.
2010 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 1 Apr. (Weekend section) 19/2 He argues with such vehemence, I'm beginning to doubt my own judgment and wonder if he's right.
b. An instance of this; a vehement impulse or action. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > sudden outburst or access of passion
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the mind > emotion > violent emotion > [noun] > fit of violent emotion
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1741 J. Duchal Serm. Death J. Abernethy 10 Faith..does not exert it's proper energy, whether that is owing to habitual weakness, or present vehemences of passion, that shut out all serious and deliberate thoughts.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. v. 31 Is it possible, that my brother and sister could make their very failings, their vehemences, of such importance to all the family?
1882 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 248/2 Public questions laid aside or his vehemences over them having already subsided for that evening.
1997 New Republic (Nexis) 7 July 36 His father can seem shrill and forbidding in his vehemences.
2. Great physical force, violence, or vigour. Also: loudness, intensity, or violence of sound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [noun]
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Wisd. xvii. D The vehemence of haistie runnynge water.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxxv. sig. M.ivv The dust also that ryseth in the strete thorow the vehemens of the wynde.
1598 L. A. tr. G. Fernandez Honour of Chiualrie xii. 16 All the vallies ecchoed with the noyse, which with more vehemence still seemed to increase.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 954 A universal hubbub wilde Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd..assaults his eare With loudest vehemence . View more context for this quotation
1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. vi. 228 Encrease the Vehemence of the Fire.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iv. §3. 122 His eyes are dragged inwards, and rolled with great vehemence.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 148 The action, by which a body is deprived of phlogiston by means of pure air, with such vehemence as to generate not only heat but flame.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. 49 Owing to the feebler affinities of these elements, the reactions take place with less vehemence.
1869 N.-Y. Times 17 June 1/2 The multiplication of instruments and voices, after a certain point, does not increase the body or vehemence of the sound.
1891 Canada Educ. Monthly & School Mag. May 175/2 How the very ground trembles as it [sc. the train] rocks and sways in the vehemence of its forward rush!
1941 Times 21 July 5/4 The veranda, whence we could watch in delicious safety, putting out a hand now and again to test the vehemence of the storm.
2002 F. Joseph Destruction of Atlantis (2004) v. 166 Candlemas Island..erupted with such vehemence that it threw ash for at least twenty-five hundred miles.
3.
a. Intensity or strength of heat, colour, smell, etc.rare before late 19th cent.; now chiefly in art criticism, with reference to colour.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun]
highnesseOE
strengthOE
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. ix. 10 Him might no man now abyde ner beare, for the vehemence of styncke.
1616 P. Hay Vision Balaams Asse xi. 200 Yet no man, nor beast could endure the vehemence of that heate.
1798 tr. L. Spallanzani Trav. Two Sicilies III. 350 Its inflation increasing from the vehemence of the heat, the matrass at length was forced to open.
1844 T. Hood Haunted House iii, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 10 The Bloody Hand shone strangely out With vehemence of colour!
1880 19th Cent. May 792 The scarlet in its true vehemence of colour in the lights, i.e. on the red roofs and warm-coloured gables and the broad surface of the sandstone cliff.
1947 Burlington Mag. Apr. 104/2 Their [sc. the paintings'] original vehemence of colour has somewhat declined.
2006 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. (Late ed.) e29/5 This underappreciated West Coast artist..brings a new vehemence of color and texture..to his comic-sinister universe of bright-eyed, zoned-out men and animals.
b. Severity or virulence of pain, disease, etc.
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?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Givv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens To purge is taken of the force & vehemence of the disease.
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxxi. f. 388 Hir heade began to ake, with such vehemence, as it seemed to be knocked in peces.
1699 tr. M. Ettmüller Etmullerus Abridg'd xviii. i. 377 A Phrensie is distinguish'd from a simple Delirium, by the unrelenting vehemence of the Feaver and Head-ache.
1735 B. Langrish Mod. Theory & Pract. Physic ii. 99 In the evening the Rigor returned, though not with so much Vehemence as on the 17th.
1794 T. Taylor tr. Pausanias Descr. Greece II. vi. iv. 94 He used to seize the extremities of his adversaries hands..and continue to grasp till he perceived they would yield from the vehemence of the pain.
1841 Irish Penny Jrnl. 1 218/2 Surely enough I found beauty sufficient to dissolve my weariness..and to allay my pulse, had it throbbed with the vehemence of fever.
1852 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 442/1 In spite of the apparent vehemence of head-symptoms, abstain from taking blood, if you have before you one of those scrofulous habits.
1918 Jrnl. Indiana State Med. Assoc. 11 307/2 I hesitated to operate before the vehemence of the symptoms was passed.
2003 Denver Post (Nexis) 15 Aug. b7 We have yet to adopt a national strategy to prevent and control today's emerging animal-borne diseases—illnesses that are increasing in frequency and vehemence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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