单词 | palling |
释义 | pallingn. The action of pall v.1 ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [noun] > losing flavour palling1669 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > state or quality of being wearisome or tedious > satiating or cloying quality > action of satiating or cloying cloying1548 satiation1609 palling1832 1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 153 The Palling or Flatting of Wines. 1789 H. Brooke Antony & Cleopatra i. ii. 337 Amid the palling of a thousand flatterers, A little poignancy of truth, at times, Is not unwholesome seasoning. 1832 B. Disraeli Contarini Fleming III. iii. xvii. 99 I know not the palling of passion. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets v. 129 To prevent the palling of so much luxury on sated senses. 1974 I. Roberts Throne of Pharaohs xi. 74 His savage good looks had not deteriorated with the palling of the years. 1996 Proposed Stud. Implic. Peaceful Space Activities (Electronic ed.) vi. 149 With the palling of glamour after a time, indifference to space and related fields may direct first-class young minds into quite other careers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pallingadj.1 That palls (pall v.1). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > causing satiety fulsomec1430 surfeiting?1569 glutting1574 over-cloying1592 cloysome1603 gluttish1655 palling1667 saturating1684 cloying1752 satiating1769 unwearable1846 1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 ccix. 53 Their palling taste the journeys length destroys. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xv. 297 The trifling Amusements, the palling Pleasures, the silly Business of the World. View more context for this quotation 1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 180 The fresh fruit flavor; rich, luscious, yet not palling. 1893 C. M. Williams Rev. Evolutional Ethics viii. 513 What man who has known the joys of the higher, the more unselfish love, would exchange them for the ungoverned and quickly-palling pleasures of the profligate! 2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 26 Jan. t6 Soon enough, too soon, the island, beautiful as it is, generates the palling effect of every prison. Derivatives ˈpallingly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adverb] > in satiating manner gluttingly1611 pallingly1821 cloyingly1928 1821 T. Campbell in New Monthly Mag. 2 236 Their subjects remind us of fables rather pallingly familiar to our school-boy memories. 1977 Church Times 18 Feb. 6/5 Books on prayer..tend to be pallingly pious or else too austere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pallingadj.2 rare. That covers something with, or as, a pall. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > with or as with specific cloth or textile palling1832 blanketing1904 1832 R. Cattermole Beckett 175 Terror, first, In frenzied haste withdraws the palling shroud. 1930 G. W. Knight Wheel of Fire viii. 154 Difficulty is increased by that implicit blurring of effects, that palling darkness, that overcasts plot, technique, style. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1669adj.11667adj.21832 |
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