| 单词 | little death |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslittle death little death n. [compare French petite mort] a state or event resembling or prefiguring death; a weakening or loss of consciousness, spec. in sleep or during an orgasm. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > suspension of consciousness ligation1598 little death1598 ligature1728 suspended animation1795 petite mort1891 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > orgasm > weakness or brief loss of consciousness during little death1598 1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. N3v A little death it [sc. music] is, which vp doth send Our soules to heauen, before we make our end. 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes (new ed.) II. §8 Euery sicknes is a little death, I will bee content to die oft, that I may die once well. 1647 S. Rutherford Christ Dying 148 This was neer two hundred stripes, every one of them was a little death. 1786 R. Robinson 16 Disc. 427 A little cold is a little death, a little more chills us to clay, and fits us for the grave. 1842 A. Beale Poems 135 Each parting seems a little death. 1885 J. Ingelow Sleep of Sigismund in Poems 150 What is sleep?—a little death Coming after. 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 89 The sexophones..moaned in the alto and tenor registers as though the little death were upon them. 1959 W. Golding Free Fall v. 108 The little death shared or self-inflicted was neither irrelevant nor sinful. 1973 D. Bagley Tightrope Men i. 9 That everyday miracle of the reintegration of the psyche after the little death of sleep. 2009 A. Sohn Prospect Park West 361 How could he think that her mild five-second eruptions had been real compared to this ecstatic and unbridled, seemingly endless little death? < as lemmas |
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