单词 | penseroso |
释义 | penseroson.adj. literary. A. n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > melancholy fit or mood melancholya1586 blues1741 penseroso1763 1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville i. 42 Il divino Enrico is a little in the Penseroso. 1804 M. Wilmot Let. 24 Apr. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) i. 95 Their Music, their Dance, their countenances, all have a tendency to the penseroso. 2. A brooding or melancholy person. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > pensiveness > person penseroso1790 1765 J. Adams Diary 23 Dec. (1961) I. 271 The Il Penseroso, however, is discernible on the Faces of all four.] 1790 R. Tyler Contrast ii. i. 18 How I should like to see that pair of penserosos together. 1975 H. Bloom Map of Misreading ii. v. 117 Roland sees himself at last as what he is, the solitary poet-quester, the penseroso so dangerously internalized as to have become anti-natural or antithetical. B. adj. Meditative, thoughtful; brooding, melancholy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adjective] > pensive thoughtfulc1300 pensivea1393 pensya1450 thoughtya1450 pensiful?c1450 pensative1574 melancholy1600 pensived1609 penseroso1813 penserose1831 penseful1865 1813 H. Cowley Runaway II. v. 35 Your Sister is in the drawing-room, and Sir Charles I just now saw in the Orange-Walk, with..his eyes fixed on a Shrub, in the most Penseroso stile you can conceive! 1820 S. Pigot Jrnl. (1974) 22 Feb. 41 On deck a little, in our Cabin reading—very pensoroso. 1831 Society 1 78 But the penseroso humour lasted not long. 1978 M. Levey Walter Pater iii. 68 Arnold's poem..its penseroso, pleasurable, semi-melancholy mood. 1997 Slate Mag. (Nexis) 13 Nov. Renoir..banished the sentimental, penseroso poses and the comforting twilit faces favored by the fashionable portrait painters he competed with. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1763 |
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