单词 | redoublement |
释义 | redoublementn. 1. An act or the action of doubling, increasing, or renewing something. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > increasing in specific proportion doubling1398 redoubling?1473 quadrupling1573 duplication1590 tripling1603 redoublement1611 sextupling1656 millecuplation1678 trebling1694 quadruplication1836 quintupling1862 sextuplication1935 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > multiplication by two > [noun] doubling1398 duplation?c1425 duplicationc1430 reduplication1592 gemination1597 redoublement1611 conduplicationa1631 ingemination1644 duplification1821 duplicability1909 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Redouble, a redoublement;..a redoubling. 1655 W. Lower Polyeuctes v. iii. 54 She'le mingle innocence and crime together, And so by this redoublement will change Into an unjust rigour, a just chastisement. 1751 J. Cleland Mem. Coxcomb 47 I promised myself, not to give them the least glimpse of suspicion [of their condition], nor did I, unless..by a redoublement of respect, and attentions. 1768 Woman of Honor III. 256 To that circumstance it was so plain, my owing her redoublement of attention to me, that I never, [etc.]. 1867 Hansard Commons 187 284/2 This bill..will have the unrivalled feat of making a redoublement of agitation both inevitable and indispensable. 1898 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gaz. 13 Dec. 1/4 This caused a redoublement of the uproar. 1923 M. Monahan in Compl. Wks. O. Wilde XI. Introd. p. xxii It takes to its arms again with a redoublement of passionate fondness the idol that it rejected yesterday. 1960 C. L. de Beaumont Fencing 254 Redoublement, a renewal of an attack, while remaining on the lunge, which includes one or more blade movements. 1995 P. Ffrench Time of Theory iii. 136 Freud appears as a pioneer of a new conception of reading which defines it as a redoublement, a doubling of the writing it reads. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > paroxysm throwOE passiona1393 paroxysma1413 storm1540 fit1557 acerbation1684 redoublement1740 redoubling1747 1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid II. 280 A frightful Crisis, which at first was thought to be a Redoublement of the Fever. 1753 N. Torriano tr. J. B. L. Chomel Hist. Diss. Gangrenous Sore Throat 93 Any Diminution in the Redoublements of the Fever. 1757 C. N. Jenty Course Anatomico-physiol. Lect. II. xx. 401 Others, on the contrary,..have an acute Fever, with Redoublements, for four days. 1873 R. Barnes Clin. Hist. Med. & Surg. Dis. Women 496 This disposition to relapses, or the ‘redoublements’ of French authors, is always to be borne in mind in the antecedent stages. 1878 F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood I. viii. 215 I fell into a redoublement of weeping. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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