| 单词 | too-piercing |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoo-piercing b. With an adjective or adverb, forming an adjectival phrase preceding and qualifying a noun, or an adverbial phrase qualifying an adjective, as too-anxious, too-celebrated, too-familiar, too-fervent, too-near, too-piercing, too-trusting, too-willing, too-wise adjs.; too-early, too-late, too-long, too-much (in quot. 1620 = too great obsolete; see also 5a) adjectives and adverbs. Hence derivatives (nonce-words), as too-bigness, too-lateness, too-muchness, too-soonness. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] > late or too late lateOE behindc1330 overlatea1400 lately?1440 arrear1477 behindhandc1550 tarde1557 lateward1572 tardy1586 too-late1620 out of time1760 tardily1821 not before time1837 postponedly1851 about time1856 belatedly1896 the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] > late > late in arriving or overdue latec1325 too-late1620 tardy1638 overdue1858 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity un-i-fohOE surfeita1393 superfluitya1398 over-micklea1400 overmucha1400 nimiety1542 superfluous1552 redundance1572 overflowing1574 overflush1581 overflow1589 overmeasure1591 redundancy1601 a too-much1604 pleonasm1616 overfloat1619 overmuchnessa1637 supernumerariness1652 plusa1721 supervacaneousness1730 supersaturate1860 too-muchness1875 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 100 It..represseth the too-much tenuity..of the bloud. 1624 J. Donne Deuotions ix. 221 Those Sentences, from which a too-late Repenter will sucke desperation. a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) ii. ii. 28 Like a too-timely Spring. View more context for this quotation 1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xxvi. 127 The gentleness of his voice [will] temper thy too-piercing tones. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. ii. 134 The good man was greatly shocked at the too familiar manner in which Mrs. Merton spoke. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Day-dream in Poems (new ed.) II. 149 Turn your face, Nor look with that too-earnest eye. 1849 E. C. Otté tr. A. von Humboldt Cosmos II. ii. v. 596 My lamented and too-early deceased friend. 1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) ii. i. 82 Only one walked apart..Asclepius, the too-wise child. 1887 Spectator 16 Apr. 532/1 A too-fervent patriotism. < as lemmas |
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