单词 | titanism |
释义 | titanismn. 1. An attitude of resistance to, or defiance of, the established order of things; esp. one which is grandiose or romantic but ultimately futile. Cf. note at Titan n.1 3a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > principle of or disposition to > against order of universe titanism1850 a1628 J. Williams Speech, Aug. 1621 (Brit. Libr. MS Add. 4149) f. 323v They are seruants attending upon the Church, and comon wealth, and to denye that wch is due to such seruants of the Church and Comon welth, is Titanisme and Barbarrity. 1850 Times 5 Feb. 8 The rough ‘Titanism’ of Die Räuber. 1867 M. Arnold On Study Celtic Lit. vi. 155 The Titanism of the Celt, his passionate, turbulent, indomitable reaction against the despotism of fact. 1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. xi. 123 The soul is filled with a Titanism that would achieve a vita nuova upon a higher plateau, where the music of humanity is no longer sad but triumphant. 1957 Economist 13 July 120/2 He was an anti-romantic with a large dash of romantic Titanism. 2004 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 76 737 Russian culture had no need of Nietzsche's influence to incline it toward Promethean titanism, extremism, and belief in the totally transforming power of consciousness. ΚΠ 1804 Crit. Rev. Aug. 376 Sabiism, Druidism, Titanism, and Heroism, are but ramifications of the same impious and primæval propensity. 3. The quality or fact of being titanic; very great size or power. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > hugeness hugenessc1380 monstruousness1545 huginess1559 immanity1586 immenseness1610 immensity1652 enormity1792 colossality1800 enormousness1802 prodigiousness1832 gianthood1841 titanism1851 hugeousness1859 vastitude1876 jumboesqueness1882 monumentality1884 stupendiosity1912 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxvi. 418 Where infantileness of ease undulates through a Titanism of power. 1934 N.Y. Times 18 Feb. iv. 4/3 The Titanism which they have developed in depicting the Mexican Revolution does not chime with smaller life. 1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 23 Oct. Miller's monumental formal fountain..embodies the titanism and solidity that highly exposed public sculpture must have. 2008 Afr. News (Nexis) 17 Jan. Contenders would be inclined to exaggerate the size of their muscle much the same way a cobra inflates its hood to give an adversary an illusion of titanism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1628 |
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