单词 | exasperation |
释义 | exasperationn. 1. Of a disease, etc.: Increase of violence or malignity; exacerbation; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increase in intensity intention1603 intension1610 exasperation1633 exaltation1729 intensation1826 intensification1864 richening1881 hotting-up1940 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > increase in severity exacerbation1625 exasperation1633 ingravescence1822 the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [noun] > making more severe aggravating1564 exacerbation1625 exasperation1633 aggravidizationa1641 1633 H. Wotton Let. 18 Apr. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 457 Judging, as of Patients in Feavers, by the exasperation of the fits. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ ii. xlvi. 315 Shivering, and Exasperation of the Feaver..are not always to be accounted evil. 1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 57 The extasies of devotion, with the exasperations of debauchery. 1884 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 2. The action of exasperating or provoking to anger; embittering; intense provocation; an instance of this. Also, a cause or means of exasperating. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [noun] > causing anger wrethinga1300 wrathingc1370 tarring1382 angeringa1393 provoking?a1425 provocationc1485 bear-baiting1587 passionating1598 exasperationa1631 exangeration1631 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 372 Forbearing all..exasperations by odious names of subdivision. 1676 J. Owen Brief Instr. Worship of God 172 That he may take no occasion thereby for the exasperation of his own spirit. 1728 J. Woodward Catal. Foreign Fossils ii. 31 in Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils Their ill Usage and Exasperations of him..disposed him to take that Liberty in several other Particulars. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 59 He had made ties for himself which..were a constant exasperation. 3. The condition of being exasperated or intensely irritated; exasperated feeling, violent passion or anger; †an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > [noun] sorenessOE courouxa1450 courouce1450 exasperationa1549 exacerbation1582 exulceration1593 vexednessa1670 sweat1715 a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) xxxii. 205 Saying..that..I wold set them by the fete..wyth other wordes I had to them of exasperacyon. 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 333 Neither the furious purposes of Ahaziah, nor the exasperations of a Iezebel can hurt that Prophet. 1672 J. Owen Disc. Evangelical Love 43 Divisions and Schisms, and mutual Exasperations among themselves. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) X. 282 Perhaps..it was a word extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirit. 1817 J. Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 56 Should the only remedy be refused [and] oppression continue..then it is not quiet sense that will speak, but exasperation. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) IV. xviii. 13 The exasperation of the people with the English increased the cordiality with which he was received. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] > slanderous representation of something exasperation1649 1649 Εἰκων Βασιλικη §3. 12 An act which My enemies loaded with all the obloquies and exasperations they could. 1755 in Johnson; whence 1818 in Todd 5. Punningly, Misplaced ‘aspiration’. ΚΠ 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) ix. 80 With a footman's bow, and a footman's hexasperation of his h's. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1549 |
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