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单词 blenching
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blenchingn.

/ˈblɛnʃɪŋ/
Etymology: Formed as blench v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of blench v.1:
a. Turning to one side, swerving, shying.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > (a) deviation from straight course
blenching1398
turna1400
misdrawing?a1425
swerving1545
digression1552
sklenting1568
excursion1603
diverting1611
diversion1626
deflection1646
deflexure1656
prevarication1672
deviation1675
evagation1692
departurea1694
swerve1736
twist1798
out-throw1855
throw1858
turnaway1922
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxxix. 436 The reremous fleeth in the eue tyde wyth brekynge and blenchynge and swyfte meuynge.
b. turning away of the eyes (? blinking, winking).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > movements of eye > winking or blinking
prinkOE
twinklinga1300
blenching1393
twink14..
blenking?a1505
twinking1519
twinkle1548
connivance1596
winka1616
nictation1623
shailing1653
nictitation1794
blinking1871
blink1924
bat1932
saccade1953
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 8 I stonde still, withoute blenching of min eye.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. v. 32 Angels..beholde streyght..in god..wythout blenchynge of theyr eyen.
c. flinching, quailing, loss of courage.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > [noun] > cowering or blenching
funking1823
blenching1868
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > shrinking or recoiling
wondingc1440
recoil1567
shrinking1580
flinching1600
shrugginga1617
reluctancea1628
blanching1642
smaying1678
shying1796
flinch1817
funking1823
blenching1868
recoiling1892
1868 J. Doran Saints & Sinners II. 186 He saw without blenching the rope by which he was to be strangled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

blenchingadj.

Etymology: Formed as blench v.1 + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblenching.
Causing the eyes to turn away or flinch.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > causing physical symptoms > [adjective] > causing flinching
blenching1833
1833 E. B. Browning Grief in Poems (1850) I. 326 Under the blenching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens.
1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 186 Let him now hurl his blenching lightnings down.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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