serréadj.

/sɛrɛ/

Etymology: French, past participle of serrer to close together.

Compact, logical; constricted by grief or emotion.

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a1854 J. S. Mill Draft Autobiogr. (1961) 115 Our debates..habitually consisted of the strongest arguments & most philosophic principles which either side was able to produce, thrown often into close & serré confutations of one another.

1908 D. H. Lawrence Let. 9 Oct. (1962) I. 28 My heart is ‘serré’—I shall soon have nothing inside my chest but the spent fragments of my organ of affection.

1931 T. S. Eliot Sel. Ess. (1932) vii. 448 Whether the transition is cogent or not, is merely a question of whether the mind is serré or dolié.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	serré
释义	serréadj. /sɛrɛ/ Etymology: French, past participle of serrer to close together. Compact, logical; constricted by grief or emotion. ΚΠ a1854 J. S. Mill Draft Autobiogr. (1961) 115 Our debates..habitually consisted of the strongest arguments & most philosophic principles which either side was able to produce, thrown often into close & serré confutations of one another. 1908 D. H. Lawrence Let. 9 Oct. (1962) I. 28 My heart is ‘serré’—I shall soon have nothing inside my chest but the spent fragments of my organ of affection. 1931 T. S. Eliot Sel. Ess. (1932) vii. 448 Whether the transition is cogent or not, is merely a question of whether the mind is serré or dolié. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.a1854
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