单词 | all-destroyer |
释义 | > as lemmasall-destroyer all-destroyer n. ΚΠ 1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus ii. v. 135 With Pranks like these they pass away their Prime, And thus destroy that All-destroyer Time. 1832 T. Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1847) III. 19 The all-destroyer Time. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 362 These declarations on Kant's part of the utter barrenness of the consciousness of the pure self, and of the consequent impossibility of any deductive or ‘rational’ psychology, are what, more than anything else, earned for him the title of the ‘all-destroyer’. 2011 P. Beitchman Theatre of Naturalism vii. 47 The worst fears and prophecies of the (early) Marx about ‘the world turned upside down’ of money, the all destroyer, all-leveller. < as lemmas |
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