单词 | amaritude |
释义 | amarituden. 1. Bitter feelings or sentiments; acrimony; resentment; (also) the quality of being bitter to the mind or feelings; distress; anguish. Somewhat rare and chiefly poetic in later use. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > bitterness > [noun] rancourc1380 nitrosity?a1425 sour cheerc1440 amaritude1490 fellc1494 rust?1507 stomach grief1553 virulencya1617 ranklea1632 embitteredness1643 embitterment1645 virulence1663 sharpness1673 virulentnessa1676 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > bitterness > [noun] rancourc1380 bitterness1382 sour cheerc1440 amaritude1490 fellc1494 rust?1507 aloea1529 stomach?1553 stomach grief1553 virulencya1617 coloquintida1622 nitrosity1634 embitteredness1643 embitterment1645 virulence1663 sharpness1673 virulentnessa1676 acerbation1793 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xxvi. sig. G.ijv Thou haste absorbed me & reclosed in the grete see of amarytude [Fr. amaritude]. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. To King To restore health to all men, without which all dulcor, & pleasantnes of our life is nothinge els then amaritude, and Gaule. 1671 T. Harby What is Truth (new ed.) vii. 188 Those that..are apt to conceive a prejudicious amaritude..against those that would (by undenyable eviction of reason) convince them of their errors. 1781 Gibbons's Mourning Saint among Willows (new ed.) xlv. 64 The former reflection had its sweetness, but this hath its amaritude. 1843 C. C. Pise Aletheia xl. 161 He must necessarily repent, in the amaritude of his heart, for his transgressions. 1920 J. Hebblethwaite Poems 74 Hunting echoes rise from the far bounds, Amaritude of exile in the sounds. 2007 Amer. Poetry Rev. 36 38 Play to me, violin, of the amaritude we both know. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [noun] > bitterness or acridity gallc1175 smartnessa1425 rhubarba1529 acrimony1542 acridity1547 amaritude1599 acerbity1608 acrity1619 asperity1620 acritude1650 acridness1702 bitterishness1702 crabbedness1715 acerbitude1727 amarulence1727 bitterness- 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 18/1 Adde thervnto a little Suger, that heereby the amaritude [Ger. bitterkeit] may somewhat be diminished. 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxvi. 124 What amaritude (bitterness) or acrimony (sharpness) is deprehended in Choler. 1835 G. T. Burnett Outl. Bot. II. 885 The amaritude of Quassia is supposed to depend upon a substance called emphatically the bitter principle. 1870 E. P. Hingston Genial Showman 20/1 How properly to ‘frost’ the rim of the glass with pulverized sugar, so that sweetness should precede amaritude. 1911 F. B. Rebman tr. F. X. Gouraud What shall I eat? 251 Chicory has a certain bitter by-taste which enhances its aperient and stimulating virtues. This amaritude is still more pronounced in the endive. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1490 |
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