| 释义 |
withdrawment Now rare.|wɪðˈdrɔːmənt|
[f. withdraw v. + -ment.]
= withdrawal in various senses; formerly spec. the withdrawal of divine illumination.
1640O. Sedgwick Christs Counsell 79 All the wrath of God, and the withdrawments of his love. 1666G. Alsop Char. Prov. Mary-Land (1869) 64, I am certainly confident, that England would as soon feel her feebleness by withdrawment of so great an upholder. 1677Gilpin Dæmonol. iii. xxiii. 195 An apparent withdrawment from Obedience. a1709J. Lister Autobiog. (1842) 52 He would sometimes say to me in the times of God's withdrawments, ‘O! son, I am not able to bear under God's absence’. 1754Edwards Freed. Will ii. iii. 41 The Withdrawment or Absence of the Sun. 1817Chalmers in Edin. Rev. Mar. 4 A great withdrawment of wealth from its former channels of distribution. 1885Manch. Exam. 16 Sept. 5/2 The immediate withdrawment from an..expensive colonial policy. |