单词 | disclamatory |
释义 | disclamatoryadj. Characterized by disclamation; involving, or of the nature of, a disclaimer. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > repudiation or refusal to acknowledge > [adjective] disclaiming1652 disclamatory1764 1764 Gentleman's & London Mag. Sept. 579/2 This has led our lords and masters to intercede with France..in terms more full and disclamatory than her sister of Spain. 1853 C. Reade Christie Johnstone ii. 30 ‘My Lord, my Lord!’ remonstrated Saunders, with a shocked and most disclamatory tone. 1944 C. V. Wedgwood William the Silent vii. 196 Disclamatory letters were bandied between them while the indignant knight-errant waited in vain. 2004 Philosophy 79 382 Must it follow that, in Hamlet's words (quoted cautiously by Wittgenstein himself, in disclamatory fashion) that ‘Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1764 |
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