blatantadj.n.

/ˈbleɪtənt/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s blattant.

Etymology: Apparently invented by Spenser, and used by him as an epithet of the thousand-tongued monster begotten of Cerberus and Chimæra, the ‘blatant’ or ‘blattant beast’, by which he symbolized calumny. It has been suggested that he intended it as an archaic form of bleating (of which the 16th cent. Scots was blaitand), but this seems rather remote from the sense in which he used it. The Latin blatīre to babble, may also be compared. (The a was probably short with Spenser: it is now always made long.)

A. adj.

1. In the phrase ‘blat(t)ant beast’, taken from Spenser (cf. F.Q. v. xii. 37, 41; vi. i. 7, iii. 24, ix. 2, x. 1, xii. advt., xii. 2): see above.

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1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xii. sig. Y8^v Vnto themselues they [sc. Envie and Detraction] gotten had A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z4^v The Blattant Beast, (quoth he) I doe pursew.

1606 Returne from Pernassus v. iv. sig. H4 The Ile of Dogges, there where the blattant beast doth rule and raigne.

1636 C. Fitzgeffry Blessed Birth-day (ed. 2) 10 That blatant beast So belched forth from his blaspheaming brest.

a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 60 Cub of the Blatant Beast.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 596 The blatant beast..with his unbridled tongue.

a1824 Ld. Byron Childe Harold i, in Wks. (1837) 7/2 Then burst the blatant beast [note, a figure for the mob], and roar'd, and raged.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax III. iv. 98 He was one of the most ‘blatant beasts’ of the Reign of Terror.

2. figurative.

a. Of persons or their words: Noisy; offensively or vulgarly clamorous; bellowing.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > outcry or clamour

crying1398

clamorous1526

wrangling1551

blatant1656

obstropolous1748

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Blatant, babling, twatling.

1674 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 371 You are a Blatant Writer and a Labrant.

1821 R. Southey Vision of Judgem. v. 17 Maledictions, and blatant tongues, and viperous hisses.

1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 92 Up rose a blatant Radical.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 515 A blatant, insolent materialism threatens to engulf moral distinctions.

b. Clamorous, making itself heard.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective]

vociferative1593

vociferous1618

blatant1791

ear-bending1946

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. vii. 267 Not the less Hear I the blatant appetite demand Due sustenance.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. ix. 96 An orator who tickled the ears of the people blatant for some unknown good.

1866 E. P. Whipple Character & Characteristic Men 166 All agree in a common contempt blatant or latent.

1867 J. MacGregor Voy. Alone in Rob Roy 65 A mass of human being whose want..misery, and filth are..patent to the eye, and blatant to the ear.

c. Obtrusive to the eye (rather than to the ear as in originally senses); glaringly or defiantly conspicuous; palpably prominent or obvious.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible > conspicuous

superapparent?a1475

apparent?1541

conspicuous1545

extant1566

conspicable1579

perspicuous1586

kenspeck1590

public1598

prominent1628

eye-taking1635

bold1678

kenspeckle1714

remarkable1726

telegraphic1809

supersalient1843

blatant1889

1889 W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers ii I write letters blatant On medicines patent.

1903 G. Gissing Private Papers Henry Ryecroft 274 The blatant upstart who builds a church, lays out his money in that way not merely to win social consideration.

1912 G. B. Shaw Let. 19 Aug. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 38 You don't loathe the scenery for being prosy and mediocre in spite of its blatant picturesqueness as you do in Switzerland.

1930 D. L. Sayers & ‘R. Eustace’ Documents in Case li. 246 The blatant way in which he had marked his trail..[etc.] were actions entirely inconsistent with the carelessness of an innocent man.

1937 H. Nicolson Helen's Tower ix. 191 If they were kept in the Museum..their blatant lack of human interest had caused me to pass them by.

1942 New Statesman 11 July 26/1 Mankind, he said, is led by half-truths or blatant lies.

1957 A. E. Coppard It's Me, O Lord! v. 55 The colonel..clad in a suit of blatant check, spats, and a monocle.

1957 Times 19 Dec. 4/3 A blatant piece of late tackling.

a. Bleating, bellowing (or merely, loud-voiced).

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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [adjective] > that bleats

bleatingc1380

blatant1791

blatting1890

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiii. 39 Many a sheep and blatant goat.

1866 J. B. Rose tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics 69 Rooks rejoicing, and the blatant herds.

b. Noisily resonant, loud.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > noisy

fervent1465

brawlinga1568

baw-waw1570

rouncing?1576

ruff-raff1582

reirding1591

wrangling1608

perstreperous1629

ran-tan1630

streperous1637

clamant1639

chiding1648

loudmouth1668

noisy1675

noise-making1678

strepitous1681

dinsome1724

strepent1750

dinny1768

loud-mouthing1788

dinning1813

blatant1816

noisome1825

strepitant1855

polyphloisboisterousa1875

noisesome1925

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 21 A blatant noise which arose behind them.

1867 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 30 The vibrating and blatant powers of a hundred instruments.

†B. n.

One who has a blatant tongue. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > one who uses invective or abuse

scoldc1175

scolder1423

railer1513

reviler1517

stinger1552

disgracer1570

invectiver1596

inveighera1601

outrayer1602

blatant1610

vent-giver1611

invector1654

insectator1706

slangwhanger1807

vituperator1837

invectivist1862

clapperclawer1873

vituperant1889

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia Pref. Verse Couch rabid Blatants, silence Surquedry.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	blatant
释义	blatantadj.n. /ˈbleɪtənt/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s blattant. Etymology: Apparently invented by Spenser, and used by him as an epithet of the thousand-tongued monster begotten of Cerberus and Chimæra, the ‘blatant’ or ‘blattant beast’, by which he symbolized calumny. It has been suggested that he intended it as an archaic form of bleating (of which the 16th cent. Scots was blaitand), but this seems rather remote from the sense in which he used it. The Latin blatīre to babble, may also be compared. (The a was probably short with Spenser: it is now always made long.) A. adj. 1. In the phrase ‘blat(t)ant beast’, taken from Spenser (cf. F.Q. v. xii. 37, 41; vi. i. 7, iii. 24, ix. 2, x. 1, xii. advt., xii. 2): see above. ΚΠ 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. xii. sig. Y8^v Vnto themselues they [sc. Envie and Detraction] gotten had A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad. View more context for this quotation 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z4^v The Blattant Beast, (quoth he) I doe pursew. View more context for this quotation 1606 Returne from Pernassus v. iv. sig. H4 The Ile of Dogges, there where the blattant beast doth rule and raigne. 1636 C. Fitzgeffry Blessed Birth-day (ed. 2) 10 That blatant beast So belched forth from his blaspheaming brest. a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 60 Cub of the Blatant Beast. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 596 The blatant beast..with his unbridled tongue. a1824 Ld. Byron Childe Harold i, in Wks. (1837) 7/2 Then burst the blatant beast [note, a figure for the mob], and roar'd, and raged. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax III. iv. 98 He was one of the most ‘blatant beasts’ of the Reign of Terror. 2. figurative. a. Of persons or their words: Noisy; offensively or vulgarly clamorous; bellowing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > outcry or clamour crying1398 clamorous1526 wrangling1551 blatant1656 obstropolous1748 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Blatant, babling, twatling. 1674 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 371 You are a Blatant Writer and a Labrant. 1821 R. Southey Vision of Judgem. v. 17 Maledictions, and blatant tongues, and viperous hisses. 1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (1876) 92 Up rose a blatant Radical. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 515 A blatant, insolent materialism threatens to engulf moral distinctions. b. Clamorous, making itself heard. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] vociferative1593 vociferous1618 blatant1791 ear-bending1946 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. vii. 267 Not the less Hear I the blatant appetite demand Due sustenance. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. ix. 96 An orator who tickled the ears of the people blatant for some unknown good. 1866 E. P. Whipple Character & Characteristic Men 166 All agree in a common contempt blatant or latent. 1867 J. MacGregor Voy. Alone in Rob Roy 65 A mass of human being whose want..misery, and filth are..patent to the eye, and blatant to the ear. c. Obtrusive to the eye (rather than to the ear as in originally senses); glaringly or defiantly conspicuous; palpably prominent or obvious. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible > conspicuous superapparent?a1475 apparent?1541 conspicuous1545 extant1566 conspicable1579 perspicuous1586 kenspeck1590 public1598 prominent1628 eye-taking1635 bold1678 kenspeckle1714 remarkable1726 telegraphic1809 supersalient1843 blatant1889 1889 W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers ii I write letters blatant On medicines patent. 1903 G. Gissing Private Papers Henry Ryecroft 274 The blatant upstart who builds a church, lays out his money in that way not merely to win social consideration. 1912 G. B. Shaw Let. 19 Aug. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 38 You don't loathe the scenery for being prosy and mediocre in spite of its blatant picturesqueness as you do in Switzerland. 1930 D. L. Sayers & ‘R. Eustace’ Documents in Case li. 246 The blatant way in which he had marked his trail..[etc.] were actions entirely inconsistent with the carelessness of an innocent man. 1937 H. Nicolson Helen's Tower ix. 191 If they were kept in the Museum..their blatant lack of human interest had caused me to pass them by. 1942 New Statesman 11 July 26/1 Mankind, he said, is led by half-truths or blatant lies. 1957 A. E. Coppard It's Me, O Lord! v. 55 The colonel..clad in a suit of blatant check, spats, and a monocle. 1957 Times 19 Dec. 4/3 A blatant piece of late tackling. 3. a. Bleating, bellowing (or merely, loud-voiced). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [adjective] > that bleats bleatingc1380 blatant1791 blatting1890 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiii. 39 Many a sheep and blatant goat. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics 69 Rooks rejoicing, and the blatant herds. b. Noisily resonant, loud. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adjective] > noisy fervent1465 brawlinga1568 baw-waw1570 rouncing?1576 ruff-raff1582 reirding1591 wrangling1608 perstreperous1629 ran-tan1630 streperous1637 clamant1639 chiding1648 loudmouth1668 noisy1675 noise-making1678 strepitous1681 dinsome1724 strepent1750 dinny1768 loud-mouthing1788 dinning1813 blatant1816 noisome1825 strepitant1855 polyphloisboisterousa1875 noisesome1925 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 21 A blatant noise which arose behind them. 1867 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 30 The vibrating and blatant powers of a hundred instruments. †B. n. One who has a blatant tongue. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > one who uses invective or abuse scoldc1175 scolder1423 railer1513 reviler1517 stinger1552 disgracer1570 invectiver1596 inveighera1601 outrayer1602 blatant1610 vent-giver1611 invector1654 insectator1706 slangwhanger1807 vituperator1837 invectivist1862 clapperclawer1873 vituperant1889 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia Pref. Verse Couch rabid Blatants, silence Surquedry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1596
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