单词 | murmurer |
释义 | murmurern. A person who or thing which murmurs (in various senses of the verb); esp. a person who complains against authority. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > one who complains > against authority murmurerc1500 murmurator1670 the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > murmuring or muttering > one who mutters mummer1440 mumblerc1530 mutterer1552 murmurera1770 c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 684 (MED) Bakbyters, glosers, & fayre flaterers, Malycious murmurers. 1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 107v Curynge the scrupulous persone..and mendyng the impacyent and murmurer. 1530 W. Tyndale Prol. Lev. Those murmurars agenst god as sone as they repented were healed of their deadly woundes. 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise in T. G. Law Catholic Tractates (1901) 84 Thir ar murmurers, querelus. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. ii. 131 Heau'ns peace be with him:..for liuing Murmurers, There's places of rebuke. View more context for this quotation 1698 in H. Paton Penninghame Parish Rec. (1933) I. 22 His being a murmurer at dispensations of the Lord to him. 1739 H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa ii. ii. 17 Their Griefs! Their insolence!.. What wou'd these Murmurers? a1770 M. Akenside Ode i. iii Th' industrious bee..Sweet murmurer! 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. v. 127 He hath become an active and earnest agitator, a murmurer, and a machinator, and a leader amongst those who impugn our authority. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §10. 579 The few murmurers were weeded from its ranks by a careful remodelling. 1916 H. Trench Milo i, in Poems (1918) I. 181 The heavy-fronded murmurer of the groves Is dash'd by sudden inward beams. 2000 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times (Nexis) 14 Jan. e1 There was much murmuring in those days, but many of the murmurers now admit it has saved lives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1500 |
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