单词 | unperverse |
释义 | unperverseadj. Not perverse (in various senses); not contrary; esp. following a natural or expected course. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [adjective] > exercising reason reasonablec1400 rational1598 fair1603 sober1638 intelligencing1658 unperverse1665 open1672 wise-like1816 sane1843 1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxi. 171 In fewds of one part of the Nation against the other, though the Heads and Ring-leaders of the peccant party do suffer capitally; yet the majority of the seduced and unperverse Commonalty..pass off by mediation of Favourites. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. vii. 27 Either you have prayed him unperverse Or I have talked him back into his wits. 1970 Stars & Stripes 17 Aug. 4/3 They all agreed it [sc. a film] was so artistically worthy and so completely unperverse, unpornographic. 2005 Poetry 186 17 There is an especially unperverse attractiveness to the tar baby. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1665 |
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