单词 | trenchantly |
释义 | trenchantlyadv. In a trenchant manner; ‘cuttingly’, incisively; sharply and effectively; definitely; so as to go to the root of a matter. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [adverb] > incisively trenchantlya1325 keenlya1400 incisively1871 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb] > clearly visible > sharply or distinctly brightlyOE clearlyc1300 fairc1390 vively1537 bremely1577 in focus1785 sharply1817 trenchantly1873 eidetically1929 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adverb] > apart or asunder > sharply or distinctly (separated) trenchantly1873 a1325 MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 61 b Him bi-houez to seggen trenchauntliche þat he is bastard. 1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xiii. 116 He is trenchantly severe on better painters than himself. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) vii. iii. 241 The educations of the two sexes were so trenchantly separated that neither had access to the knowledge of the other. 1877 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (1879) iii. 161 Groups of species confined within certain areas differing from other groups, sometimes overlapping them, sometimes trenchantly separated. 1896 W. C. Sidgwick in Times 11 Dec. 10/6 I hope the ‘roughness of my methods’ only means that I dealt trenchantly with his theories. Derivatives ˈtrenchantness n. the quality of being trenchant. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > incisiveness edgea1593 pointa1643 pointedness1693 penpoint1805 incisiveness1865 trenchancy1866 crispness1885 trenchantness1892 cutting edge1929 1892 Temple Bar Oct. 289 She..says so, with a trenchantness which brings up a little cloud of disappointed surprise. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adv.a1325 |
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