单词 | unmenaced |
释义 | unmenacedadj. Not menaced or threatened. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > assailed by threats > not unmenaced1597 1597 H. Lok Sonets in Ecclesiastes sig. Xij In home-kind loue, abroad vnmenast hate. 1643 Abp. J. Williams Let. 7 Mar. in T. Carte Coll. Lett. (1735) III. 254 We are not unmenaced, nor without daily losses in this very place. 1798 T. L. O'Beirne Serm. 51 The fatal effects of a long and unmenaced possession of our blessings. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus i. ii. 41 Here we are still unmenaced. 1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens I. 212 When Sparta was unmenaced he was lukewarm. 1909 G. H. Haynes Charles Sumner xvii. 375 Hayti retained the unmenaced independence which Sumner was eager to assure her. 2002 Washington Times (Nexis) 18 Aug. b5 Her unmenaced government is gratuitously racing to the highest per capita military budget in the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1597 |
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