| 释义 |
unˈblenched, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not blenched or turned aside; undismayed, unflinching.
1634Milton Comus 430 Yea there, where very desolation dwels,..She may pass on with unblench't majesty. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. (1855) IV. 101 His eye roams unblenched in the light, before which that of Pascal had been veiled in awe. 1863Is. Williams Baptistery ii. xxiv. (1874) 90 He who seem'd an unblench'd eye to bear. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. IV. xxiv. 494 Wesley's mental constitution was not robust enough to gaze on the future with unblenched calm.
2. Unstained, untarnished.
Perh. vaguely associated with blench v.2
1813Coleridge Night-Scene 66, I swore to her, that were she red with guilt, I would exchange my unblenched state with hers. 1815― Zapolya, Prelude i. 286 Let the Queen Dowager, with unblench'd honours, Resume her state. |