单词 | precursorship |
释义 | precursorshipn. 1. The status, position, or conduct of a precursor; the existence of a precursor or precursors. ΚΠ a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 152 The Eremitship of Elias and Iohn Baptist, and likewise of the Precurs [or] ship of Elias. 1838 Times 3 Sept. 4/1 Following up the precursorship of his viceregal avant courrier,..the anointed knave has commenced, at Cork, a regular circuit of political dinners. 1892 G. Saintsbury Misc. Ess. Pref. 9 Without the faintest intention of giving any fatuous hint of prophecy or precursorship. 1943 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 4 23 Does this view..force us henceforth to disclaim all that was once deemed the ‘modern’ face and the ‘precursorship’ of the Italian Renaissance? 1986 M. Ragussis Acts of Naming viii. 179 There seems no end to the idea of precursorship in Lolita: Lolita derives from Annabel Leigh, who derives from Poe's Annabel Lee, who derives from Dante's Beatrice, and so on. 1993 PMLA 108 305/2 Its epistemic importance..is easily ignored, as is its precursorship of the ‘theoretical anomalies’ of the new historicism. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] priority?a1475 prevention1544 earliness1575 foregoinga1586 foreness1587 formerness1587 antecedency1598 anteriority1599 precedence1605 pregression1623 antecedencea1626 antecession1629 precedency1634 beforeness1635 earlierness1674 previousness1677 precursorship1856 anteriornessa1866 precession1898 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 299 It depends for its force on the existence of ruins and traditions,..and the precursorship of eventful history. 1867 C. J. Smith Syn. & Antonyms at Antecedence Syn... Priority, Precursorship. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1603 |
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