单词 | acte gratuit |
释义 | acte gratuitn. A gratuitous or motiveless action performed on impulse. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > an act or deed > spontaneous acte gratuit1931 the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [noun] > unplanned quality or action > an unplanned action extemporarya1661 autoschediasm1842 acte gratuit1931 1931 ‘R. West’ Ending in Earnest 190 An apparent acte gratuit is merely one whose motive springs from deeper and more abstract conflicts in the soul than decide the ordinary events of daily life. 1949 ‘N. Blake’ Head of Traveller i. i. 25 I'm an Artist. I should only be interested in murder as an acte gratuit. 1950 W. H. Auden Enchafèd Flood (1951) iii. 96 His criminal acte gratuit of shooting the Albatross. 1973 J. P. Stern On Realism x. 173 A world of absolute freedom, composed of actes gratuits and governed by total self-determination. 1993 Sat. Night (Toronto) June 40/1 In what I can only count as the ultimate political acte gratuit, she released a policy paper that set out what she could do in office. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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