单词 | sweetly-toned |
释义 | > as lemmassweetly-toned 7. Qualifying participles used adjectivally, often hyphenated (in any of the preceding senses), as sweetly-breathing, sweetly-budding, sweetly-fenced, sweetly-smelling, sweetly-swelling, sweetly-written; occasionally with adjectives, as sweetly-pensive, sweetly-wise; also less correctly used for ‘sweet’ in parasynthetic combination, as sweetly-scented, sweetly-tasted, sweetly-toned. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xi. sig. V7 Of pretious pearle the double rowe, The second sweetly-fenced warde, Her heau'nly-dewed tongue to garde. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xvi. sig. Rr6 Her roundy sweetly swelling lippes. 1641 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 229 A most noble and sweetly disposed lady. 1743 P. Francis tr. Horace Secular Poem iv, in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. 369 Sweetly-shining Queen of Night. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1834) II. 475 Hymns, meditations, and sweetly-written books. 1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. xvii. 116 In a sweetly breathing accent..scarcely audible. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xviii. 301 Spices, or sweetly burning woods. 1846 H. G. Robinson Odes of Horace ii. xii Thy mistress Lycimnia's sweetly-ton'd voice. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 149 She thanked with sweetly-wise and conscious tongue. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 18 The sweetly-scented birch. < as lemmas |
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