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单词 self-communing
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self-communing
self-communing n.
Brit. /ˌsɛlfkəˈmjuːnɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌsɛlfkəˈmjunɪŋ/
the action of conversing or communicating with oneself; contemplation or reflection, esp. in solitude; (also) an act or instance of this.
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1665 Christ Confessed viii. 100 Commune with your selves. Self-communing is a ready step to sound confession.
1799 C. Cooke Battleridge I. viii. 131 He is afflicted of the Lord, both in body and spirit, and spends his time chiefly in self-communing and in prayer.
1836 C. G. F. Gore Mrs. Armytage II. v. 65 He..would check himself and laugh in the midst of his self-communing, as he sauntered, hour after hour, amid the solitudes of Holywell Park.
1927 E. M. Forster Aspects of Novel iii. 67 The..self-communings which politeness and shame prevent him from mentioning.
2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 Mar. (Review section) 21 It is the self-communing out loud which holds the first part of the novel together.
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self-communing
self-communing adj.
Brit. /ˌsɛlfkəˈmjuːnɪŋ/
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U.S. /ˌsɛlfkəˈmjunɪŋ/
characterized by self-communing; that self-communes.
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1826 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Feb. 144/1 He stoop'd o'er the dead man's grave, And gazed with self-communing air For a short space in silence there.
1941 G. Sampson Conc. Cambr. Hist. Eng. Lit. v. 255 The halting, suffering, distracted, self-communing character of Hieronimo.
2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Oct. c7 Fragile, halting, always searching—the phrasing Schiff conjured in these slow movements might as well have come from the rarefied, self-communing world of the late sonatas.
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