| 单词 | teterrimous cause |
| 释义 | > as lemmasteterrimous cause In phrase teterrimous cause, after Latin teterrima belli causa ‘the most foul cause of war’, i.e. woman (Horace Sat. i. iii. 107). ΚΠ 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 163 The very same Principle that influences a Bully to break the Windows of a Whore, who has jilted Him, naturally stirs up a Great Prince to raise Mighty Armies, and dream of nothing, but Sieges, Battles and Victories. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto IX lv. 32 Oh thou ‘teterrima Causa’ of all ‘belli’. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. iii. 362 A Christian woman now was the teterrima causa of the Moslem downfall.] 1864 Daily Tel. 24 Aug. I pronounce Orangeism the teterrimous cause of the war that has been waged for two weeks past in the heart of the town. < as lemmas |
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