单词 | to make showers |
释义 | > as lemmasto make showers 5. An outpouring or flood of tears. Also in extended use (chiefly poetic): an outpouring of grief, sorrow, etc. †to make showers: to weep (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > fit(s) of weeping shower1449 lachrymals1753 weep1836 cry1852 blub1894 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 299 (MED) O Mars..With Venus and Lucyna (the mone) pesybyl be; For masculyne furyus a-yens femenyn schouris Amonge goddys ys ascryuyd but to crwelte. c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 339 (MED) Who schalle ȝive me þat ȝifte þat I maye..see þi lovelye face..so þat I maye wasche hit with þe grettest schorowe of teres. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark xiv. f. xciiij This showre of teares which braste out of his iyes, quenched the lyghtning of Goddes wrathe. 1638 T. Heywood Wise Woman iv. ii. G 2 Shall I the shower of all my griefe at once Power out before you? 1665 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim xxvii. 302 It was not possible so to repress them [sc. tears], but that all concluded in a plentiful showre. 1798 Weekly Mag. 17 Mar. 200/2 The showers of grief covered their countenances and dimmed their sight. 1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 155 Ah, he's coming, poor fellow—he's takin a pipe to himsel at the house-end—there's a shower i' the heads wi' Barny—his heart can stand naething. 1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 65 Rosalind..wept A shower of burning tears, which fell upon His face. 1846 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings (new ed.) 25 This brought only another shower of tears. 2004 N.Y. Times 28 Jan. a25/5 ‘We though she was dead,’ the aunt said through a shower of tears. < as lemmas |
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