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单词 preattune
释义

preattunev.

Brit. /ˌpriːəˈtjuːn/, U.S. /ˌpriəˈt(j)un/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, attune v.
Etymology: < pre- prefix + attune v.
transitive. To attune beforehand.
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1794 S. T. Coleridge Let. to R. Southey in Lett. (1895) 80 I..preattuned my heartstring to tremulous emotion.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 341 The ear which hears is preattuned in Heaven.
1861 J. Barnes Green Mt. Travellers' Entertainment 322 Too sacred a spot to be approached, except the soul be pre-attuned to the solemn strain whose echo is ever there.
1931 T. Craven Men of Art iv. 102 Every one comes to a picture of The Last Supper in a peculiarly receptive mood, with a mind preattuned to the tragic situation and eager to participate in the religious sentiment.
1997 L. Yardley Material Discourses Health & Illness i. 10 The phenomenologists depict the embodied self as a dynamic state of purposeful engagement with an environment to which we are pre-attuned.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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