单词 | rendingly |
释义 | rendinglyadv. In a rending manner; esp. in a way that provokes a strong emotional response, esp. of pain or sadness; heart-rendingly; touchingly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > [adverb] > in heartbreaking manner rendingly1749 heart-rendingly1813 1749 A. Hill Let. 3 Aug. in Wks. (1753) II. 378 Inly warm'd, by a participation of Lear's rendingly inimitable feelings! 1833 W. Beattie Heliotrope ii. xxxvii. 21 On went the games! mirth and festivity Increased—prevailed: till rendingly and loud The earth and sky with consentaneous roar Denounced her doom. 1863 St. James's Mag. 7 399 Again the mysterious pang shot yet more rendingly through Madeleine's breast. 1913 Harper's Mag. Nov. 866/1 With a paw upon it he tore rendingly at it. 1926 H. Crane Let. 19 Aug. (1965) 273 I have made up a kind of friendship with that idiot boy... He is rendingly beautiful at times. 1967 Times 11 Nov. 17/1 She sneezed, rendingly. 2004 Seattle Times (Nexis) 29 Feb. k10 The ravages of whiskey and smallpox among them are brutally, rendingly drawn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1749 |
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