| 单词 | marble-minded |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarble-minded b. White, hard, cold, or unyielding like marble. Frequently in parasynthetic adjectives, as marble-breasted, marble-hearted, marble-minded, etc. Occasionally used predicatively. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted hard hearteOE steelena1000 hardOE hard-heartedc1225 stony?c1230 yhert1340 dure1412 hardedc1425 induratec1425 stonishc1450 hardenedc1480 steely1508 flinty1536 endured1540 stiff-stomached1540 heartless1556 indured1558 flint-hearted1560 iron1561 marble1565 stone-hearted?1569 stony-hearted1569 iron-hearted1570 steel-hearted1571 rocky?1578 brawned1582 flinted1582 padded1583 obdure?1590 brawny1596 flintful1596 flint-heart1596 steeled1600 cauterized1603 indurated1604 flinty-hearted1629 ahenean1630 dedolent1633 brawny-hearteda1639 hard-grained1643 callous1647 upsitten1682 seared1684 petrified1720 calloused1746 coreless1813 pebble-hearted1816 hard-shelled1848 hard-plucked1857 steel trap1921 the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as marble or alabaster marble1565 alabaster1566 alabastrine1578 marmorean1656 marbly1814 marmoreal1869 1565 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc iv. ii. sig. D3 O Queene of Adamante, O Marble breaste. 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 43 P. Oh filthie..fashion of some Englishmen, to ride with these hard, straight, and little saddles. T. They are English toyes, to vse..such marble pinching sadles [It. queste selle marmoree]. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Inespiabile, inexpiable,..vnmercifull, deadlie, marble-minded. 1602 F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsody sig. F4v Shee is most faire, though shee be marble harted. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 254 Ingratitude! thou marble harted fiend. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 122 The Marble-brested Tirant. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. ii. 89 Who was most Marble, there changed colour. View more context for this quotation a1618 J. Sylvester Woodman's Bear lxxv, in Wks. (1880) II. 312 Moan I must for never was Marble-hearted Mermidon But would moan [etc.]. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 570 His Marble, obdurate Heart. 1784 Unfortunate Sensibility I. 175 What is virtue? is it a certain marble-mindedness, the elder brother of insensibility. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xxxii. 77 That seeming marble heart. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. xxxiii. 144 Her marble brow, and eager lips. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 13 His fancy on that spring would float, If some invisible breeze might stir It's marble calm. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) II. 102 Under the marble exterior of Greek literature was concealed a soul thrilling with spiritual emotion. 1902 L. Mead Word-coinage 167 ‘A cold frost’ and ‘frost crystals’ and ‘he gave me the marble heart’ mean to be treated coldly. 1927 R. Graves Poems 1914–26 203 Not marble-hearted but your own true love. 1937 G. Greene in Night & Day 30 Sept. 39/2 She lends her too beautiful body: she consents to pose: she is the marble motive for heroisms and sacrifices. 1994 L. Erdrich Bingo Palace xx. 219 The animal blinks its brilliant black marble eyes at me, all curious. < as lemmas |
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