breast-beatingn.

Brit.

/ˈbrɛs(t)ˌbiːtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbrɛs(t)ˌbidɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: breast n., beating n.

Etymology: < breast n. + beating n., after to beat the breast at beat v.¹ 1a. Compare later breast-beat v.

The action of displaying emotion, esp. despair or remorse, in an exaggerated, ostentatious, or self-indulgent manner (with or without literal implication of beating the breast); anguish over some (usually social or moral) issue or concern. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > other manifestations of sorrow > [noun] > beating the breast

breast-beating1834

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vi, in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 306/2 Do not..readers anticipate extravagance enough: breast-beating, brow-beating (against walls), lion-bellowings of blasphemy and the like?

1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 462/1 After all his compunctions, contortions, self-cursings, breast-beatings, hand-wringings, out came the sin of sins.

1952 Granta 15 Nov. 10/1 There are times when the noise of breast-beating and intellectual self-analysis sounds like a drum and fife band.

2011 Daily Tel. 19 July 22/3 The resignations..have triggered one of those periodic fits of national breast-beating about the state of British policing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

breast-beatingadj.

Brit.

/ˈbrɛs(t)ˌbiːtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbrɛs(t)ˌbidɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: breast n., beating adj.

Etymology: < breast n. + beating adj., after to beat the breast at beat v.¹ 1a. Compare earlier breast-beating n. and later breast-beat v.

Given to or characterized by the exaggerated, ostentatious, or self-indulgent display of emotion, esp. despair or remorse (with or without literal implication of beating the breast); prone to anguish over some (usually social or moral) issue or concern.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [adjective] > given to or marked by exhibition of emotion > melodramatic

melodramatic1789

melodramatized1820

melodramatical1825

melodramic1835

breast-beating1887

thunder and lightning1892

1887 Boston Sunday Globe 20 Nov. 8/6 Mozart's ‘Don Octavio’ was no roaring, raving, breast-beating hero of romance.

1933 Amer. Mercury May 18/1 In turn, that constitutional change gave the breast-beating advocates of the people an advantage which they were quick to capitalize.

1977 Film Comment Nov. 54/3 I would call it [sc. a film]..a practical, modest work, not a breast-beating declaration of self-important anguish.

2005 I. Sinclair Edge of Orison (2006) (e-book ed.) The rhetoric of freedom, announced with breast-beating sincerity, is exposed as a politic lie.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	breast-beating
释义	breast-beatingn. Brit. /ˈbrɛs(t)ˌbiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbrɛs(t)ˌbidɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: breast n., beating n. Etymology: < breast n. + beating n., after to beat the breast at beat v.¹ 1a. Compare later breast-beat v. The action of displaying emotion, esp. despair or remorse, in an exaggerated, ostentatious, or self-indulgent manner (with or without literal implication of beating the breast); anguish over some (usually social or moral) issue or concern. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > other manifestations of sorrow > [noun] > beating the breast breast-beating1834 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vi, in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 306/2 Do not..readers anticipate extravagance enough: breast-beating, brow-beating (against walls), lion-bellowings of blasphemy and the like? 1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 462/1 After all his compunctions, contortions, self-cursings, breast-beatings, hand-wringings, out came the sin of sins. 1952 Granta 15 Nov. 10/1 There are times when the noise of breast-beating and intellectual self-analysis sounds like a drum and fife band. 2011 Daily Tel. 19 July 22/3 The resignations..have triggered one of those periodic fits of national breast-beating about the state of British policing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). breast-beatingadj. Brit. /ˈbrɛs(t)ˌbiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbrɛs(t)ˌbidɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: breast n., beating adj. Etymology: < breast n. + beating adj., after to beat the breast at beat v.¹ 1a. Compare earlier breast-beating n. and later breast-beat v. Given to or characterized by the exaggerated, ostentatious, or self-indulgent display of emotion, esp. despair or remorse (with or without literal implication of beating the breast); prone to anguish over some (usually social or moral) issue or concern. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [adjective] > given to or marked by exhibition of emotion > melodramatic melodramatic1789 melodramatized1820 melodramatical1825 melodramic1835 breast-beating1887 thunder and lightning1892 1887 Boston Sunday Globe 20 Nov. 8/6 Mozart's ‘Don Octavio’ was no roaring, raving, breast-beating hero of romance. 1933 Amer. Mercury May 18/1 In turn, that constitutional change gave the breast-beating advocates of the people an advantage which they were quick to capitalize. 1977 Film Comment Nov. 54/3 I would call it [sc. a film]..a practical, modest work, not a breast-beating declaration of self-important anguish. 2005 I. Sinclair Edge of Orison (2006) (e-book ed.) The rhetoric of freedom, announced with breast-beating sincerity, is exposed as a politic lie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1834adj.1887
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