单词 | self-consuming |
释义 | > as lemmasself-consuming self-consuming adj. Brit. /ˌsɛlfkənˈsjuːmɪŋ/ , U.S. /ˌsɛlfkənˈs(j)umɪŋ/ ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xi. sig. Nnv Fowle Gealosy, that..Mak'st the louing hart..Feed it selfe with selfe-consuming smart? 1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 102 An old decrepid Hag,..withered with Despight And self-consuming Hate. 1761 P. Doyle tr. T. Tasso Delivery Jerusalem II. xx. 301 At first he seem'd astonish'd and amaz'd, Then burn'd with wrath and self consuming fire. 1839 T. De Quincey in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 9/2 The self-consuming energies of the brain, that gnaw at the heart and life-strings for ever. 1951 Crisis Jan. 6/1 The dogged, self-consuming attachment too many white southerners have to their split, two-colored world. 2013 Mod. Lang. Rev. 108 753 The poem as a self-consuming artefact that disappears into actual and stylistic obscurity. < as lemmas |
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