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单词 heaven-defying
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heaven-defying
b. Objective, as in heaven-defying, heaven-threatening, etc., adjectives.; heaven-climber, heaven-stormer, etc., nouns.
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 68 Arcitenens, heofenhæbbend.
1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux f. 40v To read the sacred heau'n-out-lyuing scroule.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 115 Set forth, against that heauen-threatning Armado.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) iii. iv. 57 Mercurie New lighted on a heauen-kissing hill [1604 a heaue, a kissing hill].
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) xi. 60 When that blood pleads, heav'n will not lend an eare If heav'n-engaging Charity be not there.
a1678 A. Marvell Billborow Hill in Misc. Poems (1681) 74 The cliff Of Heaven-daring Teneriff.
1705 Moderation Vindicated 12 What Frontless and Heaven-daring Language is this?
1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 418 Perjury, that Heaven-defying vice.
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 17 Giving out a shout most heaven rending.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xlviii. 191 Heaven assailing cries.
1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians II. vii. 110 The whole Alpine..heaven-climbers.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 222/1 It is to Amaterasu (the heaven-illuminating goddess) that the Japanese pay reverence above all other deities.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Nov. 68/2 He does not specify how his ‘irrationalism’ differs from that of the heaven-stormers.
2006 New Musical Express 25 Mar. 20/1 Heavily-set riffs and heaven-scraping melodies elevate the quartet above the legion of bad Coldplay photocopies.
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