单词 | abstraction-monger |
释义 | > as lemmasabstraction-monger abstraction-monger n. depreciative a scholar, thinker, etc., who shows a preference for abstract concepts over practical judgements or empirical facts. ΚΠ a1834 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1984) II. 426 Some..of the words marked by Eichhorn are far from peculiar to the Wisd. of Sol.—as νoερoν, a favourite word with the Alexandrine Abstraction-mongers. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. viii. viii. 97 His philosophy is never that of the abstraction-monger. 1985 S. Lukes tr. H. Bergson in Emile Durkheim (new ed.) i. ii. 52 I have always thought that he would be an abstraction-monger. < as lemmas |
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