单词 | forbidding |
释义 | forbiddingn. The action of forbid v.; a prohibition. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] defence?c1335 forbiddingc1380 defendingc1400 prohibition1429 embarring1563 prohibiting1572 embargement1599 inhibiting1607 forbiddance1608 touch-me-not1636 forbiddal1835 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 85 Þis forbedyng is colourid by holynesse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20527 He ete ogain mi forbidding. a1631 J. Donne Progresse of Soule ix, in Poems (1633) 5 T'her whom the first man did wive (Whom and her race, only forbiddings drive). 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 753 But his forbidding Commends thee more. View more context for this quotation 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen 142 It amounts almost to a total Forbidding. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). forbiddingadj. 1. That forbids, in senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] prohibitive?a1425 inhibitory1490 negative1526 prohibitory1564 forbidding1574 inhibiting1607 countermanding1677 inhibitive1830 1574 J. Baret Aluearie F 849 Forbidding, vetans. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 475 But they Dreaded not more th' adventure then his voice Forbidding . View more context for this quotation 2. esp. That forbids, or disinclines to, a nearer approach; repellent, repulsive, uninviting: a. chiefly of a person, his manner, looks, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > unseemliness or unbecomingness > [adjective] > uninviting untemperinga1616 forbidding1712 grim1820 the mind > emotion > hatred > feeling against or a settled dislike > [adjective] > that causes aversion forbidding1712 averting1820 rebarbative1892 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 301. ¶2 That awful Cast of the Eye and forbidding Frown. 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 3 June in Wks. (1955) VII. 294 Doors & entrances of the houses dirty and forbidding. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 199 A forbidding-looking creature. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iii. 85 An elderly man of remarkably hard features and forbidding aspect. 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 21 I do not know that I ever saw any winged creature of so forbidding an aspect. b. of a country, sea-coast, the weather, etc. ΚΠ 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 272 Although the land is so desart and forbidding. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxvi. 264 We saw the same forbidding wall of belt-ice. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 262 The coast..is exceedingly rocky and forbidding. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. i. 8 The morning looked forbidding enough. Derivatives forˈbiddingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adverb] > uninvitingly forbiddingly1848 the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > disgust > [adverb] > disgustingly > repellently repellingly1811 repellently1812 forbiddingly1848 off-puttingly1961 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Forbiddingly. 1880 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea (ed. 4) VI. vi. 75 The..Ravine..[was] forbiddingly hard to crest. 1883 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Dec. 45/1 The Beacon hills..frown forbiddingly. forˈbiddingness n. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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