单词 | unmanhood |
释义 | unmanhoodn. The condition or quality of lacking courage, decency, or virility; unmanliness. Formerly also: †unmanly conduct (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > quality of unmanliness unmanheada1387 unmanhooda1413 softness1553 unmanliness?1575 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 824 Hym soth seyde Pandarus That for to slen hym self myght he not wynne But boþe doon vnmanhod and synne. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. l. 8261 Þe Grekis with him goon And her corage hooly þei reswme..Þat no wiȝt may hem iustly chalenge Of vnmanhod. 1649 J. Lilburne Legall Fund. Liberties People of Eng. 19 O the height not only of unchristianity, but even of unmanhood it selfe! 1848 Blake on Physical Disability 31 No personal disgrace or ridicule is considered equal to that arising from a state of unmanhood. 1922 Hattiesburg (Mississippi) Amer. 4 Dec. 3/6 There is a poor little thing reduced to a skeleton because of your unmanhood. 2000 W. I. Miller Myst. Courage (2002) xv. 237 You never escaped..the anxiety and fear of sinking into unmanhood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1413 |
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