释义 |
inbreak rare.|ˈɪnbreɪk| [f. in adv. + break n.1, after outbreak.] A breaking in, irruption, invasion, forcible incursion.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. x, Deshuttes and Varigny, massacred at the first inbreak, have been beheaded in the Marble Court. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xli. (1856) 378 The first inbreak upon our desolate circle of ice and water that we had experienced in ninety-nine days. 1879A. B. Davidson in Expositor 255 The inbreak of Phœnician idolatry. So ˈinˌbreaking vbl. n., a breaking in; ppl. a., that breaks in.
1652J. Pawson Brief Vind. Free Grace 6 The out-breakings of corruption, the in-breakings of Satan. 1882H. S. Holland Logic & Life (1885) 307 Waiting..for the inbreaking of God's tremendous Majesty. 1891Moule Suppl. Cambr. Rev. p. lxi/2 The solemn gloom of judgment without the inbreaking sunshine of pardon. |