单词 | mongering |
释义 | mongeringn. Usually derogatory (chiefly in extended use). 1. As the final element in compounds (cf. monger n.1 2): trade or traffic in the commodity, etc., specified. Cf. monging n. 2. ΚΠ 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers (MS) Argt. The poet..revileth Walter Scott for..ballad-mongering. 1867 H. C. Lea Sacerdotal Celibacy (1884) xxv. 413 The salvation mongering of Tetzel. 1908 L. Johnson Poetry & Ireland 23 Leave metre-mongering to the young decadents. 1940 Mind 49 120 Hegel was wrong in his formal system-mongering which reflects the influence upon his thought of Christian theology. 1992 A. Desmond & J. Moore Darwin 442 The hardbitten Robert Knox..achieved a new notoriety by his doom-mongering about coming racial wars. 2. Trading, trafficking; an instance of this. Cf. monging n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] trafficking1570 traffic1583 horse-corsing1602 mongering1846 pinhooking1962 1846 B. Thorpe tr. Ælfric Homilies II. 95 Let none of them undertake any reeveship or mongering. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains xii. 314 All these..militant mongerings of moral half-truths. 1952 E. Morgan Vision of Cathkin Braes 9 Roaring this most anciently designed Rank drunken mongering of crambo-clink. 1993 N.Y. Times 29 Aug. iv. 7/2 Where there was not outright foolishness, there was a mongering of the maudlin and a base opportunism. 1998 First Things Oct. 20/1 Talking dogs expounding blood and mongerings of war. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mongeringadj. Usually derogatory (chiefly in extended use). As the final element in compounds (cf. monger n.1 2): trading or trafficking in the commodity, etc., specified; = monging adj. ΚΠ 1585 J. Sharrock tr. C. Ocland Elizabeth Queene sig. C4, in tr. Valiant Actes & Victorious Battailes Eng. Nation The vile masse mungring crue, lamented at their hart. 1614 J. Taylor Nipping of Abuses sig. B4v I hate such balladmongring riming slaues. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 254 The Arian Court-Mongring Bishops persuaded the Emperor Constantius to Proselyte him into their Arian Heterodoxy. 1788 in Orig. Lett. Laurence Sterne xxvi. 144 My definitions are not borrowed from..the dull muzzing pericranium of a word-mongering dictionary maker. 1808 R. Southey Let. to H. H. Southey 14 Nov. That peace-mongering squad who would lay us at the feet of France. 1843 J. F. Murray World of London I. x. 131 The impossible-mongering, cold-water-throwing, wet-blanketting-fellows, howled in this way about the Thames tunnel. 1885 Sat. Rev. 24 Jan. 104/2 The..asceticism dear to his fad-mongering friends. 1903 W. James in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1901–3 17 15 With all these things, infected by their previous mystery-mongering discoverers, even our best friends had rather avoid complicity. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 June 16/2 Descriptions of spaceships and aliens have always followed the specifications laid down in Hollywood..by scare-mongering TV docudramas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1809adj.1585 |
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