释义 |
ˈspeechlessness [f. speechless a.] The state or condition of being speechless; lack or loss of speech.
1581Dee Priv. Diary (Camden) 10 My mervaylous horsnes and in manner spechelesnes toke me. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1650) 54 The immediate preceding signs of death are..the memory confused, speechelesnesse, cold sweats [etc.]. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 540 Aphonia. Dumbness. Speechlessness. Inability of Speech. 1863Mrs. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlh. xvii, Her very speechlessness before him had come from the deep pleasure that his presence had given to her. 1873B. Harte Fiddletown 17 The monstrous doll, whose very size seemed to give a pathetic significance to its speechlessness. |