英语词汇“literary dunce”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. Originally: a person whose knowledge is acquired only from books and who therefore lacks a broad, humane understanding of the world and any originality or freshness of insight; a dull book-learned pedant. From the 18th cent. (later often more fully literary dunce): a writer, critic, publisher, etc., producing dull, unoriginal work; one who lacks true literary creativity or appreciation.In the modern use associated chiefly with Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad (see quot. 1728, and compare Dunciad n. 1).

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > a pedant > dull

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1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 8 If one bee harde in conceiuing, they pronounce him a dowlte, if giuen to study, they proclayme him a duns.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 25 You that purpose with great summes of studdy, and candles to purchase the worshipfull names of Dunses, and Dodipoles, may closely sitt, or sokingly ly at your bookes.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xviii. 199 A dunce, void of learning but full of Books.

1711 J. Swift Var. Thoughts in Misc. Prose & Verse 238 When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this Sign, that the Dunces are all in Confederacy against him.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 43 Not with less glory mighty Dulness crown'd, Shall take thro' Grubstreet her triumphant round, And all Parnassus glancing o'er at once, Behold a hundred sons, and each a dunce.

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. 155 That literary dunce, Samuel Johnson, who was totally destitute of taste.

1804 R. Bisset Mod. Lit. III. iv. 130 Detractors and envy attested the same truth in the obloquy of the dunces, the impotent babbling of the enraged and contemptible Doctor Dicky Scribble.

1955 A. Williams Pope's Dunciad vi. 158 Dunces, and duncely writings, were not, to Pope, matters of little or merely personal import.

2006 S. Staves Literary Hist. Women's Writing in Brit. 1660–1789 171 Pope situates all the women writers he names, including Manley and Haywood, among the literary dunces.

单词	literary dunce
释义	> as lemmas literary dunce 4. Originally: a person whose knowledge is acquired only from books and who therefore lacks a broad, humane understanding of the world and any originality or freshness of insight; a dull book-learned pedant. From the 18th cent. (later often more fully literary dunce): a writer, critic, publisher, etc., producing dull, unoriginal work; one who lacks true literary creativity or appreciation.In the modern use associated chiefly with Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad (see quot. 1728, and compare Dunciad n. 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun] > a pedant > dull dunce1578 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 8 If one bee harde in conceiuing, they pronounce him a dowlte, if giuen to study, they proclayme him a duns. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 25 You that purpose with great summes of studdy, and candles to purchase the worshipfull names of Dunses, and Dodipoles, may closely sitt, or sokingly ly at your bookes. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xviii. 199 A dunce, void of learning but full of Books. 1711 J. Swift Var. Thoughts in Misc. Prose & Verse 238 When a true Genius appears in the World, you may know him by this Sign, that the Dunces are all in Confederacy against him. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 43 Not with less glory mighty Dulness crown'd, Shall take thro' Grubstreet her triumphant round, And all Parnassus glancing o'er at once, Behold a hundred sons, and each a dunce. 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. 155 That literary dunce, Samuel Johnson, who was totally destitute of taste. 1804 R. Bisset Mod. Lit. III. iv. 130 Detractors and envy attested the same truth in the obloquy of the dunces, the impotent babbling of the enraged and contemptible Doctor Dicky Scribble. 1955 A. Williams Pope's Dunciad vi. 158 Dunces, and duncely writings, were not, to Pope, matters of little or merely personal import. 2006 S. Staves Literary Hist. Women's Writing in Brit. 1660–1789 171 Pope situates all the women writers he names, including Manley and Haywood, among the literary dunces. extracted from duncen. < as lemmas
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