单词 | distantiate |
释义 | distantiatev.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measure (off) a length or distance [verb (transitive)] > measure distance of distantiate1610 distance1706 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. v. 55 From conuenient distances in the same, distantiate euery By, dispersed in the Plot. 2. transitive. To distance (oneself) from something, esp. mentally or intellectually; to set or keep (an idea, feeling, etc.) at a distance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > distance or farness > be far from [verb (transitive)] > put at or remove to a distance farOE fersec1000 far-casta1340 removec1384 proloynec1425 prolong1440 purloin1461 elong1477 enstrange1483 eloin1535 elongatec1540 distance1578 discoast1583 eloinate1642 outpost1864 distantiate1924 1924 [implied in: Jrnl. Philos. 21 658 The human mind was to be conceived at a respectable distance from the entire flux of universal realities. It was to be conceived in terms of the safest distantiation from the world. (at distantiation n.)]. 1938 A. Kolnai War against West iv. 179 The higher race cannot distantiate itself effectively from mere mankind. 1972 M. Mead Blackberry Winter (1973) 26 By putting the promptings of the senses and of the unconscious at a distance, she also distantiated humor. 1995 Stud. Romanticism 34 408 But what The Eve of St Agnes does do in relation to ideology, as a work of art.., is to distantiate it. 2013 Internat. Jrnl. Politics, Culture, & Soc. 26 99 He hastened to distantiate himself from the negationist implications of the Milosevic defense. Derivatives diˈstantiating adj. that sets or keeps something at a distance, esp. mentally or intellectually. ΚΠ 1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. iii. 111 The ‘distantiating demonstrative’..suggests a point of view from outside the situation; when we say, for example, dans ce pays ‘in this country’, instead of dans notre pays ‘in our country’, there is effected..a disinterested comparison with other countries. 2006 Eighteenth Cent. 47 141 A conversion of the ethnographic present and intersubjectivity essential to fieldwork into a distantiating, objectifying ethnographic discourse about others. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < v.1610 |
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