| 释义 |
sub-creˈative, a.
[sub- 5 c (b), 8.]
Of or pertaining to sub-creation or secondary creation. Hence sub-creˈatively adv.
Quot. 1860 shows a nonce-use of this word.
1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf-t. ii, The ‘subcreative centre’, as my..friend has..called man. 1947J. R. R. Tolkien in Essays presented to Charles Williams 71 To many, Fantasy, this sub-creative art which plays strange tricks with the world and all that is in it, combining nouns and redistributing adjectives, has seemed suspect, if not illegitimate. 1958― Lett. (1981) 286 In this Myth the rebellion of created free-will precedes creation of the World (Eä); and Eä has in it, subcreatively introduced, evil, rebellious, discordant elements of its own nature. 1974R. Helms Tolkien's World vi. 122 As artist, he is incomplete, impotent, without the presence of the other element in sub-creative activity—his community. |