单词 | hard-favoured |
释义 | hard-favouredhard-favoredadj. Now archaic and used chiefly with allusion to Shakespeare (see quot. a1616 at sense 1). 1. Of a person: coarse-featured, hard-faced; having a harsh, ugly, or unpleasant appearance, aspect, or character. Also in extended use. Cf. ill-favoured adj. a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] foulOE uglyc1386 malgraciousa1393 unsightlya1400 loathc1400 ouglec1415 shrewdc1430 unsightyc1440 unwholesome?a1500 evil-favoured1530 ill-favoured1530 uglisome1530 huggeda1533 hard-favoureda1535 evil-liking1535 ill-favorited1579 stigmatical1589 stigmatic1597 sightlessa1616 hard-featured1638 grislya1681 bad-looking1757 unmackly1765 unfavourable1776 dissightly1777 eyesore1798 wavelled1886 spiderly1891 Plain Jane1912 hackit1985 a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 37/1 Richarde the third sonne..was..hard fauoured of visage. 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. I.j If you say it wer good to mary an hard fauored woman, then I answere, she wil be lothsome. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. i. 8 Stiffen the sinewes, commune vp the blood, Disguise faire Nature with hard-fauour'd Rage: Then lend the Eye a terrible aspect. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Culpeper Morall Disc. & Ess. iv. 32 It is but an hard-favoured, rugged, and un-courtly Vertue, destitute of all those graces and charms which are wont to captivate our aff[e]ctions. 1676 H. C. Char. Honest Lawyer sig. B2v Hard favour'd Ladies hate Handsome Chamber-maids. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica iii. 226 The Corsicans are in general of small stature, and rather hard-favoured. 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 29 June 174/3 When your master put a new Latin book into your hands..in its bare, hard, dry outline.., if something were told you about the men who wrote these hard-favoured little books, and about the comparative merits of their style, [etc.]. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xix. 191 Humouring the joke with a hard-favored smile. 1925 D. Heyward in O. Henry Prize Stories of 1925 (1926) 193 The hard-favoured woman with the daunting look turned and..seated herself humbly beside the cripple. 1991 Guardian 14 May 6/1 Summoning up the blood, putting on some hard-favoured rage, and especially lending the eye a terrible aspect all comes easily to the man who put the mouth into Monmouth. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [adjective] > worthy of disapproval > not worthy of approval hard-favoured1595 implausible1602 unapprovable1647 objectionable1653 unexemplar1685 exceptionable1691 unexemplary1699 ceptionable1702 objectable1747 beastly1763 objectional1799 unqualifiable1823 funky1946 1595 F. Bunny Suruey Popes Supremacie i. 55 If the argument be hard fauoured and mishapen, and ill tied together, and agree like strings al out of tune, blame him that make it so. 1675 S. Loveday Personal Reprobation Reprobated xii. 216 These verses are by many persons much wrested and abused, as they are compelled to serve in that hard service of strengthening that hard-favoured opinion of personal and eternal predestination. 1800 T. Cooper Polit. Ess. 18 Socinianism..Deism..Atheism... If a man be a good Citizen..should he be..sneered at..or have some of these hard-favoured Isms thrown at his head if he cannot subscribe to the infallibility of his opponent? Derivatives hard-ˈfavouredness n. now rare ugliness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] uglinessc1340 foulnessa1398 dishonestyc1400 deformityc1450 laidure1483 ugsomeness1483 evilfavouredness1535 ill-favouredness1565 hard-favouredness1585 deformedness1588 disgrace1596 unsightliness1611 disfavour1706 hard-featuredness1839 eye-soreness1883 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. viii. 42 Because of his hardfavourednesse and deformity. 1687 Chirurgorum Comes i. iii. 464/1 Disfiguring is a kind of Ugliness, or hard-favouredness canted by wounding. 1893 W. T. Lewis Geneal. Lewis Family in Amer. xvi. 322 He was a very raw-boned, lean-visaged man, and in point of hard-favoredness he had but few equals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1535 |
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