单词 | life-weariness |
释义 | > as lemmaslife-weariness life-weariness n. [perhaps after German Lebensmüdigkeit (1811 or earlier)] ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > attitude to life or the world taedium vitae1759 life-weariness1828 Weltschmerz1875 mal du siècle1926 1828 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 2 95 If Byron's life-weariness..could pierce so deep into many a British heart,..we may judge with what vehement acceptance this Werter must have been welcomed. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 168 His illness had been more life-weariness than organic disease. 1927 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 37 181 Life-weariness is not always begotten of the satiety consequent upon excess. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Mar. Ruggero Raimondi is a dignified, almost classically restrained Philip..vividly catching the king's private sadness and life-weariness. < as lemmas |
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