| 释义 |
narrow-spirited, a.
[narrow a. 4.]
Mean-spirited, wanting in generous or liberal feelings.
1679Trial Langhorn 14 He said he was a narrow Spirited, and a narrow Soul'd Physician. 1703Moderation a Virtue 10 But the narrow-spirited Zealots prevailed. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 275 Neither the Peevish,..nor the Selfish and Narrow-Spirited..are any of them charitable. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 357 We..shall find subjects to rejoice at which the selfish and narrow-spirited never know. 1818Scott Rob Roy x, Qualities..modified by a narrow-spirited, but yet ardent patriotism.
Hence narrow-ˈspiritedness.
1709Chandler Effort agst. Bigotry Ded. A 2 b, That narrow Spiritedness that is more or less the Fault of all Parties. a1714M. Henry Wks. (ed. Fullarton) II. 356 That narrow spiritedness which confines religion and the church to our way and party. |