单词 | world-end |
释义 | > as lemmasworld-end world-end n. [compare Old High German weroltenti] = world's end n. ΚΠ OE Beowulf (2008) 3083 Þæt he ne grette goldweard þone, lete hyne licgean þær he longe wæs, wicum wunian oð woruldende. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 5142 (MED) Ihesu Crist þat here es uptane Fra yhow til heven, with flessch and bane, Swa sal he com at þe world ende. 1685 Short Answer to D. of Buckingham's Paper 23 Be Antichristian and Persecuting to the World end. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas (Ded.) p. vii I was born in her gate..Where the world-end steamers wait. 1907 Pacific Monthly Sept. 315/2 From world-end to world-end I go,..searching wistfully for something vaguely desired. 2003 K. G. Powderly Paladin's Odyssey x. 128 I say let them all burn or drown at world-end! < as lemmas |
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