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单词 groping
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gropingn.

/ˈɡrəʊpɪŋ/
Etymology: < grope v. + -ing suffix1. In Old English grápung.
The action of grope v. in its various senses; †in early use, touch, the sense of touch; in groping, to the touch (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > [noun]
gropingc1000
toucha1398
feela1400
tastea1400
tastinga1400
touching?c1400
tact1651
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > [noun] > tentatively
groping1594
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching blindly or as if in dark
groping1594
gropery1777
the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > tentative
groping1830
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > searching tentatively
groping1830
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 234 Forðan ðurh his [sc. St. Thomas's] grapunge we sind geleaffulle.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 153 Wið luue speche cos. vnhende grapunge.
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 142 Unneaðe þauh alast. þuruh þen abbodes gropunge he hit seide.
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 249 Þese [fyve] wittis ben clepid siȝte, and heering, smelling and taist, wiþ groping.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xxi. 69 The wytte of gropynge.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) (1495) xvii. lii Ebenus..is playne and smoþe in gropynge.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 219 Wyth mowth in kyssyng, wyth hand in gropyng.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 52 Thair followis thingis thre To gar thame ga in gucking, Brasing, graping, and plucking.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 549 Euery Spirit always searcheth after God as a blind man goeth by groaping.
1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 84 They lost their way by groping about in the dark, and fumbling among rotten parchments and musty records.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. vii. 119 Feeling our way..in these cautious gropings after truth.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Groping, (1) A mode of ascertaining whether geese or fowls have eggs. Var. dial. (2) A mode of catching trout by tickling them with the hands under rocks or banks.
1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet xl. 56 Is life a groping and a guess, A vain cry in a wilderness..?
1888 Athenæum 1 Dec. 739/1 The tentative mathematical gropings of the Egyptians and Phœnicians.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

gropingadj.

/ˈɡrəʊpɪŋ/
Etymology: < grope v. + -ing suffix2.
That gropes, in senses of the verb.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [adjective] > searching blindly or as in dark
gropingc1400
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [adjective]
orrathc1175
unsicker?c1225
doubtousc1374
doubtive1393
unsurec1412
uncertained1470
doubtful1509
unassured1528
scriple?a1534
unpersuadeda1535
uncertainc1540
scrupulous1559
unsatisfied1575
unresolved1587
incertaina1616
dubious1632
scrupling1641
hesitant1647
insecure1649
hesitatious1657
uncleara1658
groping1691
doubting1715
dubitative1728
gingerish1764
vague1806
duberous1818
dubitant1821
undecided1828
inconclusive1836
foreheadless1844
titubant1880
convictionless1882
swithering1917
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 591 He is þe gropande god.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C8v Shall Curio streake his lims on his dayes couch, In Sommer bower? and with bare groping touch Incense his lust?
1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 309 The groping World had so bewildred it self in an endless Maze of Errour.
1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 24 The groaping Blind direct.
1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism i. 75 Amidst its wild and groping earnestness, it sheds a vivid light upon the inward man.
absolute.1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 168 Or, that a hundred of the groping Like himself had made one Homer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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