单词 | menacement |
释义 | † menacementn. Obsolete. The act or process of menacing or threatening; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] threatc1000 threating1046 threateningc1290 menacec1300 menacingc1385 shore1487 interminationa1530 minacitya1538 shoring1573 menacement1606 minacy1645 peril1892 Mau Mau1970 mau-mauing1970 1606 H. Wotton Let. 6 Dec. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 370 By entreaty, or by menacement. 1613 H. Wotton Let. 21 May in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 416 Which feminine menacement did no doubt incite him to do it. 1638 David's Troubles Remembred f. 24v David..whose heart relents, And shakes and trembles at Gods menacements. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. III. v. iv. 70 A threat, an act of menacement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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