单词 | slow-sure |
释义 | > as lemmasslow-sure b. Prefixed to adjectives to form adjectives with the sense ‘slow and——’, as slow-sure, slow-sweet, etc. ΚΠ 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 18 Beware, Lorenzo! a slow-sudden Death. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 201 When on my ear this plaintive strain, Slow-solemn, stole. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. viii. 333 An epigrammatic slow-sure Manuel. 1863 A. B. Grosart Small Sins (ed. 2) 70 If man would but mark the slow-sure advance of the very least sin! 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 254 Neatly she poured slowsyrupy sloe [printed sole]. 2018 Kashmir Images (Nexis) 13 Mar. Good company is okay, but bad company is a slow-sweet poison. < as lemmas |
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