英语词汇“prick of conscience”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. The action or an act of pricking; the fact, experience, or pain of being pricked; a puncture. Also figurative, esp. in prick of conscience: compunction, remorse, guilt; (in earlier use) †an awareness causing this (obsolete). Cf. sense 7c.

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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience

wormOE

prick of conscience?c1225

bitingc1440

compunction?a1475

grudge1483

pouncea1500

grutch1509

pincha1566

remurmuration of conscience1611

twinge1622

wringing1623

twinging1816

society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience > cause of

prick of conscience?c1225

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > with sharp-pointed instrument > pricking > a prick

prick1600

jag1818

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 50 Þe echnen beoð þe forme arewen of lecheries prickes.

?a1400 Prick of Conscience (Garrett) (1863) p. xxxiv (MED) Here bigynneþ þe boke whiche is iclepid þe Prick of Conscience.

a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1646 It puttyth a man to pouerte And pullyth hym to peynys prycke.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 13 (MED) Wherfor I conclude, seenge the feldis may nat be enhabited, that the citees through the prykke of hungre shuld be enfamyned.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. liij^v This was no dreame, but a punccion and pricke of hys synfull conscience.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 33 Gentlewomen That liue honestly by the prick of their needle.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ix. 171 Captain Minchin..was like to lose his hand by a prick with a Cat fishes Fin.

1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland vii. 180 Every prick of conscience, was succeeded by new resolutions to extirpate heresy.

1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 504 A stimulus, strictly limited in its local extent—say the prick of a needle.

1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds x. 177 ‘Sleepy byes time, Lex,’ and I just felt the prick in my arm before I was blotted out again.

1977 N. Freeling Gadget III. 144 Out like a light. Leave her there... Later we'll give her a prick.

2005 Business Recorder (Nexis) 1 July They lived on the crumbs falling from the Seth's table and didn't have any prick of conscience stealing from the coffers of the Seth.

单词	prick of conscience
释义	> as lemmas prick of conscience a. The action or an act of pricking; the fact, experience, or pain of being pricked; a puncture. Also figurative, esp. in prick of conscience: compunction, remorse, guilt; (in earlier use) †an awareness causing this (obsolete). Cf. sense 7c. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience wormOE prick of conscience?c1225 bitingc1440 compunction?a1475 grudge1483 pouncea1500 grutch1509 pincha1566 remurmuration of conscience1611 twinge1622 wringing1623 twinging1816 society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > [noun] > pricking or murmuring of conscience > cause of prick of conscience?c1225 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > with sharp-pointed instrument > pricking > a prick prick1600 jag1818 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 50 Þe echnen beoð þe forme arewen of lecheries prickes. ?a1400 Prick of Conscience (Garrett) (1863) p. xxxiv (MED) Here bigynneþ þe boke whiche is iclepid þe Prick of Conscience. a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1646 It puttyth a man to pouerte And pullyth hym to peynys prycke. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 13 (MED) Wherfor I conclude, seenge the feldis may nat be enhabited, that the citees through the prykke of hungre shuld be enfamyned. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. liij^v This was no dreame, but a punccion and pricke of hys synfull conscience. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. i. 33 Gentlewomen That liue honestly by the prick of their needle. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. ix. 171 Captain Minchin..was like to lose his hand by a prick with a Cat fishes Fin. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland vii. 180 Every prick of conscience, was succeeded by new resolutions to extirpate heresy. 1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 504 A stimulus, strictly limited in its local extent—say the prick of a needle. 1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds x. 177 ‘Sleepy byes time, Lex,’ and I just felt the prick in my arm before I was blotted out again. 1977 N. Freeling Gadget III. 144 Out like a light. Leave her there... Later we'll give her a prick. 2005 Business Recorder (Nexis) 1 July They lived on the crumbs falling from the Seth's table and didn't have any prick of conscience stealing from the coffers of the Seth. extracted from prickn. < as lemmas
随便看	to put into mourning to put into neutral to put into operation to put into play to put into practice to put into question to put into repair to put into requisition to put into shape to put into vogue to put into words to put it about to put it across to see the year out to see things to see through to see through a brick wall to see through a glass darkly to see through a ladder to see through brick walls to see through rose-coloured glasses to see through rose-coloured spectacles to see through rose-tinted glasses to see through rose-tinted spectacles to see through rosecoloured glasses

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