单词 | woe-foreboding |
释义 | > as lemmaswoe-foreboding C2. Objective, as woe-bringing, woe-foreboding, woe-working, etc. ΚΠ 1653 R. Carpenter Anabaptist Washt Advt. to Rdr. 434 The same Wo-denouncing words and Accents, with which he cried against the Scribes and Pharisees. 1674 J. Maynard Law of God Ratified ii. 50 The fifth Angel sounded, which is the first of the three woe-bringing Trumpets. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 259 The natural progeny of that woe-begetting parent. 1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming iii. xvi. 57 [He] smote his breast with woe-denouncing hand. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 40 Three banners..The woe-foreboding peasant sees. 1887 S. M. Damon Old New-Eng. Days iv. 32 Again rang out that woe-proclaiming message, ‘The British are coming!’ 1929 Folk-lore 40 98 Fairies are treated as partly woe-working. 2005 T. J. Betts Ezekiel the Priest iii. 58 Brownlee equates the material substance of the scroll..with the woe-bringing message of the prophet. < as lemmas |
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