| 单词 | ghost-seeing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasghost-seeing a. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which ghost expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in ghost-fearing, ghost-seeing (adjectives and nouns); ghost lover, etc.Cf. ghost hunter n., ghost-raiser n., ghost seer n., etc. ΚΠ 1742 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes i. xxiv. 115 The Ghost-compelling God..will not..unbar the Gates of Death. 1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 232 This should be borne in mind by political and philosophical ghostseers, ghostlovers, and ghostmongers. 1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 130 Your modern Indian..is no ghost-fearing wretch. 1886 ‘M. Gray’ Silence of Dean Maitland I. i. x. 272 Dr. Everard, what prescriptions have you for young ladies who take to ghost-seeing? 1892 Proc. Amer. Mission Assoc. 62 Superstition..in the form of ghost-fears..pervades every community of..the Afro-Americans in the South. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 5 Sept. 2/1 The great ghost-seeing age is between twenty and twenty-nine. 1969 Daily Mail 26 Sept. 12/3 Enjoyable reading for country-lovers, ghost believers or not. 2010 New Yorker 11 Oct. 38/2 It was a wet, gloomy day, perfect for ghost-spotting. < as lemmas |
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