单词 | now-declining |
释义 | > as lemmasnow-declining C2. With present participles and verbal nouns, as now-being, now-declining, etc. ΚΠ 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion x. 162 Such immortall men As this now-waning world shall hardly heare agen. 1830 I. Taylor Unitarianism 81 The ‘stolid fanaticism’ of this now-passing time. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) xiv. 297 A great bed of now-existing shells. 1854 N. Wiseman Fabiola i. x Looking at the now-declining moon. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights vi. 69 It is full of presence..of now-being. 1994 Canad. Geographic Sept. 50/2 The great natural harbour where the now-bustling town of Gaspé grew. 2000 J. Barnes Candle 107 A few continued the now-losing battle against the whipsawing global disaster that was the heritage of the Eurowar. < as lemmas |
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