单词 | heaven-bound |
释义 | > as lemmasheaven-bound e. Modifying (chiefly participial) adjectives, with the sense ‘to or toward heaven’, as heaven-aspiring, heaven-bound, heaven-dear, etc., adjectives. ΚΠ 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. B4 Reason outbrau'd this heauen-aspiring hoast. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 23 Heau'n-bent Soules. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 430 'Mong the Heau'n-deere spirits. 1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis sig. K1v Then (with that Heu'n-rapt Saint) rapt Muse, ascend. a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 526 A Heav'n-aspiring Mind. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo v, in Wks. (1721) III. 155 With a Heav'n-erected Look. 1770 W. Hodson Ded. Temple of Solomon 19 This Heav'n-devoted Shrine. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 253 The Heaven-affianced spirit. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 126 This heaven-aspiring tower. 1882 Harper's Mag. June 120/2 They made her a grave at the foot of her favorite tree—a grand heaven-reaching pine, clothed with a mist of perfumed plumy green. 1925 V. Lindsay Coll. Poems 116 How the tears of the distracted demons became a heaven-climbing flame. 1997 B. Wagner I'm losing You (1998) 241 Yet there it was, irrefutable, like the whistle of a thousand trains, heaven-bound. < as lemmas |
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