nemesisn.

Brit.

/ˈnɛmᵻsɪs/, U.S.

/ˈnɛməsəs/

Inflections: Plural nemeses.

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek νέμεσις.

Etymology: < ancient Greek νέμεσις righteous indignation, retribution, also personified as Νέμεσις (classical Latin Nemesis ), the name of the goddess of retribution < νέμειν to give what is due, deal, distribute (see nim v.) + -σις -sis suffix.

a. Usually in form Nemesis. Originally in classical mythology: the goddess of retribution or vengeance, who reverses excessive good fortune, checks presumption, and punishes wrongdoing; (hence) a person who or thing which avenges, punishes, or brings about someone's downfall; an agent of retribution.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun] > one who inflicts

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > avenger of injured or injury > an avenging spirit

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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 329^v Nemesis (y^e Goddesse of takyng vengeaunce on suche as are proude & disdeignefull in tyme of their prosperite).

1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. Q She calles on Némesis.., The Goddesse of al iust reuenge.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. vii. 78 Is Talbot slaine, the Frenchmens only Scourge, Your Kingdomes terror, and blacke Nemesis ?

1698 C. Gildon Phaeton iii. 14 No longer delay, But call just Nemesis away, From her dismal shades below.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. iv. 98 The Antients used..to sacrifice to the Goddess Nemesis; a Deity who was thought..to look with an invidious Eye on human Felicity, and to have a..Delight in overturning it.

1795 J. Hoole Cleonice ii. ii. 33 Yes, Teramenes—civil discord now, That sheathes her sword, has left revenge to rear Her dreadful banner—Nemesis has heard Our solemn vows against exulting Pontus.

1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxxii. 69 Thou, who never yet of human wrong Lost the unbalanced scale, great Nemesis.

1857 J. W. Croker Ess. French Revol. iv. 171 The lex talionis with which the revolutionary Nemesis requited her votaries.

1870 A. J. Davis Fountain v. 75 Scientific skepticism, under the sanction of highest scholars everywhere, is the Nemesis which will crush institutionalized religion into nothingness.

1883 B. M. Croker Pretty Miss Neville (1884) xvi. 143 Some day Nemesis will arrive heavy-handed, in the shape of a couple of pretty grown-up daughters.

1912 Dict. National Biogr. at Stokes, Whitley Another part of his writings consists of controversial attacks [on others]... Nemesis is always on the watch in such controversies, and Stokes himself fell into many errors of the kind he censured in others.

1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. xxi. 244 Aye, the power that used to be called Nemesis by the ancients tapped him on the shoulder in the streets o' Liverpool.

1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic i 14 The young artist, osteopath and scene-maker who had introduced Profumo to his nemesis, Christine Keeler.

b. Originally and chiefly North American. In extended use: a persistent tormentor; a long-standing rival, an arch-enemy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun]

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1933 J. M. Mitchell in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. 12 318 (title) Antonio Melendrez, nemesis of William Walker in Baja California.

1953 L. M. Uris Battle Cry i. v. 64 In the pits there was also a red flag, the nemesis of a rifleman..the signal for a complete miss.

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The baseball team was defeated by the first-rate pitching of its old nemesis.

1975 Business Week 13 Jan. 78/3 Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo.., long-time nemesis of the oil companies.

1988 Fortune 10 Oct. 11/3 Even IBM, Job[s]'s old nemesis, has had a tough time cracking Sun's stronghold.

2000 Time 9 Oct. 63/3 While his [sc. Kostunica's] supporters filled the streets shouting that Milosevic was finished, his nemesis still sat in his White Palace.

a. Usually in form Nemesis. Retributive justice; (also) an instance of this; the downfall brought by it.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun]

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1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill f. 27, in Ess. Expecting..that Nemesis and retribution will take holde of the authours of our hart [i.e. hurt].

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) v. vi. 149 It must..find a severe Nemesis arising out of its guilty conscience.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xix. 72 Penalties inflicted by that Nemesis that is interwoven in the very Law of Nature thus transgressed.

1734 W. Crawford Short Man. against Infidelity xvii. 138 Guilt naturally produces a Fear of the Divine Nemesis.

1859 J. C. Bucknill Psychol. Shakespeare 21 It is a pathological Nemesis of guilt.

1867 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra Introd. 8 The nemesis which overtook Clytaemnestra.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience vi. 142 The jealousy of the gods, the nemesis that follows too much happiness, the all-encompassing death.

1920 R. Macaulay Potterism ii. ii. 139 The young clergyman suspected his friend himself, and was trying in vain to avert from him the Nemesis that his crime deserved.

1955 Pacific Affairs 28 137 It is tragically fitting that in the March 1954 elections the Muslim League should have met its nemesis with the help of the student community.

1989 Prediction Ann. 9/2 It's a time when humanity reaps the harvest of past actions, not necessarily through the stern power of Nemesis but certainly through events which put complacency severely to the test.

b. An unavoidable consequence of (or occasionally for) a specified activity or behaviour; an inevitable penalty or price.

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1863 P. E. Irving in Q. Rev. 114 173 That satiety of a life without definite objects, and vague fear of a more objectless future, which is the Nemesis of a Bohemian existence.

1880 W. H. D. Adams Wrecked Lives 1st Ser. p. iv The unerring Nemesis of Failure dogs the footsteps of the wrongdoers.

1895 G. Allen Woman who Did i. 11 'Tis the Nemesis of reason; if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.

1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism ii. 71 The nemesis of parasitic wealth was not discerned.

1936 G. B. Shaw Millionairess (1973) Pref. 859 Public opinion..was a dumb phantom which every statesman could identify with his own conscience and dread as the Nemesis of unscrupulous ambition.

1991 New Scientist (BNC) 16 Feb. The nemesis for this pure empiricism is that some ‘megatrends’ may be greatly exaggerated.

3. Astronomy. In form Nemesis. A small, faint star postulated as a companion to the sun in a hypothesis to explain the supposed cyclical nature of terrestrial mass extinctions.According to the hypothesis the companion star follows a highly eccentric orbit around the sun which causes it to disturb the Oort cloud every 26 million years, sending a shower of comets into the inner solar system.

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the world > the universe > star > kind of star > small star > [noun] > dwarf > hypothetical, orbiting the sun

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1984 M. Davis et al. in Nature 19 Apr. 717/2 If and when the companion is found, we suggest it be named Nemesis, after the Greek goddess... We worry that if the companion is not found, this paper will be our nemesis.

1986 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 218 19 In evolving from its original orbit to the present day, Nemesis should have undergone at least of order 10³ revolutions, which by its implication for the Oort Cloud and the cratering record seems to rule out the hypothesis.

1994 P. Davies Last Three Minutes i. 6 If it exists, our companion star—dubbed Nemesis, or the Death Star—is too dim and too far away to have been discovered yet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nemesis
释义	nemesisn. Brit. /ˈnɛmᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˈnɛməsəs/ Inflections: Plural nemeses. Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek νέμεσις. Etymology: < ancient Greek νέμεσις righteous indignation, retribution, also personified as Νέμεσις (classical Latin Nemesis ), the name of the goddess of retribution < νέμειν to give what is due, deal, distribute (see nim v.) + -σις -sis suffix. 1. a. Usually in form Nemesis. Originally in classical mythology: the goddess of retribution or vengeance, who reverses excessive good fortune, checks presumption, and punishes wrongdoing; (hence) a person who or thing which avenges, punishes, or brings about someone's downfall; an agent of retribution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun] > one who inflicts wreakera1300 wrechera1325 vengera1340 vengesour1382 avenger1388 vengeancerc1440 revengera1522 nemesis1542 alastor1603 vindicator1827 retributor1844 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > avenger of injured or injury > an avenging spirit nemesis1542 alastor1603 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 329^v Nemesis (y^e Goddesse of takyng vengeaunce on suche as are proude & disdeignefull in tyme of their prosperite). 1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. Q She calles on Némesis.., The Goddesse of al iust reuenge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. vii. 78 Is Talbot slaine, the Frenchmens only Scourge, Your Kingdomes terror, and blacke Nemesis ? View more context for this quotation 1698 C. Gildon Phaeton iii. 14 No longer delay, But call just Nemesis away, From her dismal shades below. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. ii. iv. 98 The Antients used..to sacrifice to the Goddess Nemesis; a Deity who was thought..to look with an invidious Eye on human Felicity, and to have a..Delight in overturning it. View more context for this quotation 1795 J. Hoole Cleonice ii. ii. 33 Yes, Teramenes—civil discord now, That sheathes her sword, has left revenge to rear Her dreadful banner—Nemesis has heard Our solemn vows against exulting Pontus. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxxii. 69 Thou, who never yet of human wrong Lost the unbalanced scale, great Nemesis. 1857 J. W. Croker Ess. French Revol. iv. 171 The lex talionis with which the revolutionary Nemesis requited her votaries. 1870 A. J. Davis Fountain v. 75 Scientific skepticism, under the sanction of highest scholars everywhere, is the Nemesis which will crush institutionalized religion into nothingness. 1883 B. M. Croker Pretty Miss Neville (1884) xvi. 143 Some day Nemesis will arrive heavy-handed, in the shape of a couple of pretty grown-up daughters. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. at Stokes, Whitley Another part of his writings consists of controversial attacks [on others]... Nemesis is always on the watch in such controversies, and Stokes himself fell into many errors of the kind he censured in others. 1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. xxi. 244 Aye, the power that used to be called Nemesis by the ancients tapped him on the shoulder in the streets o' Liverpool. 1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic i 14 The young artist, osteopath and scene-maker who had introduced Profumo to his nemesis, Christine Keeler. b. Originally and chiefly North American. In extended use: a persistent tormentor; a long-standing rival, an arch-enemy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun] roodOE thornc1230 prickc1384 rack?a1425 travailerc1450 goading1548 twinge1548 goad1553 tormentor1553 cut1568 stingera1577 butcher1579 torture1612 bosom-devil1651 wound1844 knife-edge1876 nemesis1933 1933 J. M. Mitchell in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. 12 318 (title) Antonio Melendrez, nemesis of William Walker in Baja California. 1953 L. M. Uris Battle Cry i. v. 64 In the pits there was also a red flag, the nemesis of a rifleman..the signal for a complete miss. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The baseball team was defeated by the first-rate pitching of its old nemesis. 1975 Business Week 13 Jan. 78/3 Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo.., long-time nemesis of the oil companies. 1988 Fortune 10 Oct. 11/3 Even IBM, Job[s]'s old nemesis, has had a tough time cracking Sun's stronghold. 2000 Time 9 Oct. 63/3 While his [sc. Kostunica's] supporters filled the streets shouting that Milosevic was finished, his nemesis still sat in his White Palace. 2. a. Usually in form Nemesis. Retributive justice; (also) an instance of this; the downfall brought by it. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun] wrakec825 wrechec1175 yielda1200 wrakedomc1275 vengeancea1300 hevening1303 vengement1338 wreakc1340 rewardc1350 retributiona1425 revengeancec1480 wratha1500 revengementa1513 avengeance1535 avenge1568 ultion1575 venge1587 wreck1591 nemesis1597 revanche1615 vindict1639 vindication1647 1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill f. 27, in Ess. Expecting..that Nemesis and retribution will take holde of the authours of our hart [i.e. hurt]. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) v. vi. 149 It must..find a severe Nemesis arising out of its guilty conscience. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xix. 72 Penalties inflicted by that Nemesis that is interwoven in the very Law of Nature thus transgressed. 1734 W. Crawford Short Man. against Infidelity xvii. 138 Guilt naturally produces a Fear of the Divine Nemesis. 1859 J. C. Bucknill Psychol. Shakespeare 21 It is a pathological Nemesis of guilt. 1867 R. C. Jebb Sophocles' Electra Introd. 8 The nemesis which overtook Clytaemnestra. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience vi. 142 The jealousy of the gods, the nemesis that follows too much happiness, the all-encompassing death. 1920 R. Macaulay Potterism ii. ii. 139 The young clergyman suspected his friend himself, and was trying in vain to avert from him the Nemesis that his crime deserved. 1955 Pacific Affairs 28 137 It is tragically fitting that in the March 1954 elections the Muslim League should have met its nemesis with the help of the student community. 1989 Prediction Ann. 9/2 It's a time when humanity reaps the harvest of past actions, not necessarily through the stern power of Nemesis but certainly through events which put complacency severely to the test. b. An unavoidable consequence of (or occasionally for) a specified activity or behaviour; an inevitable penalty or price. ΚΠ 1863 P. E. Irving in Q. Rev. 114 173 That satiety of a life without definite objects, and vague fear of a more objectless future, which is the Nemesis of a Bohemian existence. 1880 W. H. D. Adams Wrecked Lives 1st Ser. p. iv The unerring Nemesis of Failure dogs the footsteps of the wrongdoers. 1895 G. Allen Woman who Did i. 11 'Tis the Nemesis of reason; if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also. 1926 R. H. Tawney Relig. & Rise Capitalism ii. 71 The nemesis of parasitic wealth was not discerned. 1936 G. B. Shaw Millionairess (1973) Pref. 859 Public opinion..was a dumb phantom which every statesman could identify with his own conscience and dread as the Nemesis of unscrupulous ambition. 1991 New Scientist (BNC) 16 Feb. The nemesis for this pure empiricism is that some ‘megatrends’ may be greatly exaggerated. 3. Astronomy. In form Nemesis. A small, faint star postulated as a companion to the sun in a hypothesis to explain the supposed cyclical nature of terrestrial mass extinctions.According to the hypothesis the companion star follows a highly eccentric orbit around the sun which causes it to disturb the Oort cloud every 26 million years, sending a shower of comets into the inner solar system. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > kind of star > small star > [noun] > dwarf > hypothetical, orbiting the sun nemesis1984 1984 M. Davis et al. in Nature 19 Apr. 717/2 If and when the companion is found, we suggest it be named Nemesis, after the Greek goddess... We worry that if the companion is not found, this paper will be our nemesis. 1986 Monthly Notices Royal Astron. Soc. 218 19 In evolving from its original orbit to the present day, Nemesis should have undergone at least of order 10³ revolutions, which by its implication for the Oort Cloud and the cratering record seems to rule out the hypothesis. 1994 P. Davies Last Three Minutes i. 6 If it exists, our companion star—dubbed Nemesis, or the Death Star—is too dim and too far away to have been discovered yet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1542
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