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单词 redoublement
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redoublementn.

Brit. /ˌriːˈdʌblm(ə)nt/, /rᵻˈdʌblm(ə)nt/, U.S. /riˈdəb(ə)lm(ə)nt/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French redoublement.
Etymology: < French redoublement action of redoubling, state of something which is redoubled (mid 15th cent. in Middle French; 14th cent. in sense ‘action of doubling material by folding it over’), exacerbation of a disease (1671) < redoubler redouble v.2 + -ment -ment suffix. Compare earlier redoubling n.2
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.
2. Medicine. A paroxysm, exacerbation, or relapse of a disease. Cf. redoubling n.2 2. Obsolete.In quot. 1878 (in weakened or extended use): a renewed fit or spasm.
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).
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