单词 | cardiphonia |
释义 | † cardiphonian. Obsolete. The expression of an author's or speaker's most heartfelt feelings. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > seat of the emotions > [noun] > breast or heart > utterance of the heart cardiphonia1780 1780 W. Cowper Let. 4 July (1979) I. 360 Cardiphonia or the Utterance of the Heart... My dear Friend—It is difficult to find a Motto for a Book containing almost as many Subjects as Pages... Horace and my Memory are the only Motto:mongers I am possessed of... The latter..has at last supplied me with one that I hope will please you. 1781 J. Newton (title) Cardiphonia; or, The utterance of the heart. 1881 Contemp. Rev. 330 The work [In Memoriam]..became at once a text-book and a cardiphonia. 1908 G. T, Coster Points from my Jrnl. 24 At the end of his prayers, true cardiphonia, the slow-spoken reverential ‘Amen’ seems to review and renew all the many supplications. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021). < n.1780 |
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