| 单词 | stretch of language |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstretch of language e. An undue extension of scope or application. stretch of language: the use of words or expressions with undue latitude of meaning. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] wrestingc1444 pervertinga1450 corruptiona1513 straining1528 writhing?1532 hacking1539 violence1546 racking1556 wrying1562 wringing1565 detorting1579 wrest1581 detortion1598 wrench1603 torture1605 distorting1610 violencing1612 refraction1614 misacception1629 distortion1650 distorture1709 misacceptation1721 torturing1753 verbicide1826 stretch1849 twisting1890 queeringness1955 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xxxix. 82 This bold stretch of exegetical conjecture. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. App. 431 With reference to this hypothesis, I will only say that it is a bold stretch of analogies. 1875 W. K. Clifford Lect. (1879) I. 229 It is only by a stretch of language that we can be said to desire that which is inconceivable. 1905 R. Broughton Waif's Progress xiv. 164 It could not, by any stretch of language, be considered a good thing for any young woman to be taken under the..wing of Lady Tennington. < as lemmas |
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