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单词 rending
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rendingn.

Brit. /ˈrɛndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɛndɪŋ/
Forms: see rend v.1 and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rend v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < rend v.1 + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of rend v.1 Also with adverbs, esp. asunder.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > [noun]
tatteringc1380
rendinga1398
rifta1400
rentingc1405
ripping1463
direption1483
outriving1488
dilaceration1545
raving1553
dilaniation1569
divulsion1603
discission1628
discerption1645
tear1666
rent1753
shredding1954
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 161 Whan he knowes þat he is..with ynne þe fysshers ponge he..bigynneþ to make him awaie with brekyng and rendyng of ȝerdes.
c1415 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Corpus Oxf.) (1868) l. 2834 Whan Ector was brought al fressh y-slayn To Troye allas the pite þat was þere Cracching of cheekes rendyng eek of here.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 429 Rendynge a-sundry, laceracio.
1569 A. Golding tr. N. Hemmingsen Postill (new ed.) f. 340 v Hee stirreth vp too the intente hee may leaue nothing vnattempted, which by any meanes may make eyther too the ouerthrow or too the rending of the churche in peeces.
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi v. §2. 123 A noise like to the rending of broad cloth.
1654 J. Howell in S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia To Rdr. sig. A3v The rending away of the county of Rossillon, hath given so shrewd a check to the Spanish Monarchy.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlviii. 393 Direption, tearing and rending asunder of their Joynts.
1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 286 'Tis an Eradication, or rending of the Soul.
1813 R. Bakewell Introd. Geol. viii. 189 Virgil has represented the rending of rocks as one of the common effects of lightning.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. v. 110 The rending asunder of the veil which overhung the temple.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 370 The rending or otherwise yielding of the coats of the vessel was accompanied by severe pain.
1930 J. Buchan Castle Gay i. 20 The table collapsed,..and the rending of timber and the recriminations of journalists were added to the apocalyptic din.
1946 C. Fry Firstborn iii. i. 85 Can you hear it, the noise, The rending apart and shuddering-to of wings?
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 741/1 The explanation of sapping appears to be found in rending and disintegration of rock by the freeze-and-thaw process.
2000 S. Connor Dumbstruck vi. 168 The violent rending of the devil's person effected by the power of the relics.
b. An act or instance of this.
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1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. iv. 136 Your vulgar Latine translatour is bolde to saye Scissuras, cuttings or rendings, where you are bold to goe from your Latine texte and call them schismes.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 151 The vilest Heresies and rendings of the Church.
1678 R. McWard Poor Man's Cup Cold-water 22 Were the rendings of the Cauls of our hearts heard also in heaven?
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Arsenick It causes great Pains, Rendings,..violent Vomitings.
1774 H. Brooke Juliet Grenville (Dublin ed.) II. 71 My soul lay extended on the rack of its former rendings.
1847 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 53 187 The formation of the Appalachians was attended by rendings and emissions of heat on a vast scale.
1875 F. W. H. Myers Poems 91 Where wilt thou find a riving or a rending?
1928 V. Woolf Orlando ii. 96 He tore, in one rending, the scrolloping emblazoned scroll.
1995 New Yorker 27 Mar. 75/2 Their subjects—the moral condition, the fatal rendings between love, duty, and power—nodded to Soviet ideology.
2. A torn piece or fragment. rare.In quot. 1859 figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > torn off
cloutc1325
rug?a1505
avulsion1678
scrid1815
rending1859
tearing1891
1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 234 Men who..bring with them bits and rendings of their academic whims.
1906 A. S. Way tr. Aeschylus Persians in Aeschylus in Eng. Verse I. 89 The rendings of his rich attire In tattered shreds about his body hang.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rendingadj.

Brit. /ˈrɛndɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɛndɪŋ/
Forms: see rend v.1 and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rend v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < rend v.1 + -ing suffix2.
1. That tears or lacerates; (in later use esp.) that causes great emotional pain.In quot. ?c1400: tearing at one's face in grief.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [adjective]
anguishous?c1225
wounding?c1225
asperc1374
derflya1400
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
fretting1413
piercingc1450
anguish1477
piquant1521
anguishing?1566
plaguing1566
asperous?1567
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
wringing1576
cutting1582
tormentous1583
tormentful1596
tormentuous1597
racking1598
torturous1600
lacerating1609
torturing1611
tearinga1616
heart-aching1620
breast-rending1625
crucifying1648
tormentative1654
martyring?a1656
tormentive1655
discruciating1658
cruciatory1660
anguishful1685
brain-racking1708
probing1749
agonized1793
anguished1803
harrowing1810
vulnerary1821
grinding1869
torturesome1889
wrenching1889
tortuous1922
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
sharpc1000
grievousc1290
smartc1300
fellc1330
unsufferablea1340
keena1375
poignantc1390
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
stoutc1425
unbearablec1449
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. met. i. l. 3 Rendyng muses [L. lacerae..carmenae] of poetes enditen to me þinges to be writen.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. 158 But stinges and sharpest steele did far exceed The sharpnesse of his cruel rending clawes.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 402 Being of a terrible, rending, tearing, devilish, fierce Nature.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxii. 270 Their stinging Acrimony, rending Nitrosity.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. 111 He speaks peace to the storm of rending passions.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. vii. 101 We have no rending choice to make.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 47 It [sc. anginal pain] may be most acute and agonizing, of a rending character.
1922 McClure's July 71/2 She saw nothing but the..soft little throat marred by the hideous scrawl of rending claws.
1942 T. S. Eliot Little Gidding ii. 11 The rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been.
1970 Mosaic (Winnipeg) 3 No. 3. 2 Each has eroded before its trenchant share and rending coulter, and the wilderness become field and lawn.
1999 Dance Nov. 57/1 The parting pas de deux in Juliet's bedroom and the dance with her unconscious body in the tomb went beyond dance into rending anguish.
2. That is splitting apart or breaking up. Chiefly in rending veil in later use. Now rare.With reference to rending veil see, for example, Matthew 27:51: ‘And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent’.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > tearing or tearing apart > [adjective]
rivinga1400
renting1561
ripping1576
splitting1609
divulsivea1626
rending1660
shredding1883
1660 S. Pordage tr. Seneca Troades ii. i. 8 When on a sodain th'Earth shoke, a hollow sound Flew from the bottome of the rending ground.
1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 289 Darts the swift Lightning from the rending cloud.
1766 J. Beattie Elegy Death Lady in Poems Several Subj. 82 O happy stroke, that..Darts through the rending gloom the blaze of day.
1827 H. H. Millman in R. Heber Hymns Weekly Church Service 62 By the sun at noon-day pale, Shivering rocks, and rending veil.
1887 S. Bristol Pioneer Preacher ix. 109 What means that rending veil? What the sun's veiled face? What the rending rocks and earthquake?
1903 F. B. Bradley-Birt Chota Nagpore xi. 255 The sharp cessation of all noise within, typical of the rending veil of life.
3. Of a sound: loud and piercing. Also in extended use.In early use chiefly with reference to the sound of the trumpet heralding the Last Judgement.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective]
loud971
stithc1000
strongOE
greata1375
stiff1377
wrastc1400
boistousc1430
stourc1440
big1549
routing1567
thundering?1576
full-mouthed1594
thunderous1606
tonitruous1606
thundery1608
trump-like1609
full-mouth1624
voluminousa1635
rousing1640
altisonous1661
lusty1672
tonitrual1693
rending1719
trumpet-like1814
foudroyant1840
clarion1842
trumpeting1850
trumpet-toned1851
loudish1860
tonitruant1861
tonant1891
thunderful1898
high1923
wham-bam1960
1719 W. Bond Descr. Four Last Things 39 The rending Sound of Arch-angelick Trump.
1773 Good-Friday xxix. 19 When the last Trumpet's rending Sound Shall wake all Nations to the Bar.
1808 Philos. Mag. 30 239 After the last explosion, a rending noise like that of a whirlwind passed along to the east of his house and immediately over his orchard.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxii. 120 With a creaking and rending sound.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 74 The world shall stand still with a rending jar.
1920 J. Dos Passos One Man's Initiation v. 49 A whistle split the air, followed by a rending snort that tailed off into the moaning of a wounded man.
1941 J. Agee & W. Evans Let us now praise Famous Men i. iii. 86 Casually, and with rending triumph, the signal is delivered on the dusk: the sure wild glittering yell of a rooster.
1996 P. Richmond My Father's War ii. 100 The wind roared in from the Bismarck Sea at hurricane velocity, bringing down giant trees with rending, splintering crashes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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