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单词 unfamiliar
释义 unfaˈmiliar, a.
(un-1 7.)
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. i. §2 The matters which we handle seeme by reason of newnesse..darke, intricate, and vnfamiliar.1648Herrick Hesper., Oberons Feast 4 Because thou prizest things that are Curious, and unfamiliar.c1698Locke Cond. Underst. §32 (1754) 127 Abstruse and unfamiliar ideas which the mind is not yet thoroughly accustomed to.1753Warton Obs. Spenser's F.Q. 141 It must be confest that his uncouth or rather unfamiliar language has deterr'd many from perusing him.1829Lytton Devereux iii. vi, His face did not seem unfamiliar to me.1848Dickens Dombey xlix, Looking without interest or recognition at the unfamiliar walls around her.1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xli, When Onesimus recovered full consciousness he did not recognise his unfamiliar surroundings.
Hence unfaˈmiliarness.
1881Times 17 May 4/6 A multitude of little changes of this kind..arouse a general sense of unfamiliarness.




Add: unfaˈmiliarly adv.
1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Unfamiliarly.1979C. E. Schorske Fin-de-Siècle Vienna vii. 362 It was a prophetic Lebensgefühl that produced the explosion in the garden: a humanism unfamiliarly mixed with nihilism.
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