单词 | pectoralist |
释义 | pectoralistn. rare. A person who ascribes excessive importance to emotion or feeling. Cf. pectoral n. 4. ΚΠ 1886 F. W. Farrar Hist. Interpr. viii. 415 [Neander's] motto was, pectus facit theologum, and many sneered at his followers as pectoralists. 1922 G. S. Hall Senescence ix. 513 The world..leaves passionate affirmations of a future life, so in fashion in the days of Tennyson and Browning, to mystics, clerical rhapsodists, pectoralists, or to those steeped in cardiac emotions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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