单词 | unpoetically |
释义 | unpoeticallyadv. In an unpoetic manner; esp. prosaically, unimaginatively, unromantically. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adverb] > in poetic manner > not unpoetically1675 1675 E. Sherburne in tr. M. Manilius Sphere 7 To this effect our Country-man Ioseph of Excester (not unpoetically)—Sine remigis usu, [etc.]. 1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. i. 7 How coldly and unpoetically Pope has copied the subsequent appeal to the nymphs. 1835 F. W. Thomas Clinton Bradshaw II. xiv. 276 ‘Dazzled as I am, I cannot.., pierce the darkness..: where's Mr. Chesterton?’ ‘Just gone, most unpoetically, to bed.’ 1936 Sewannee Rev. 44 22 In few ages of literature has there been rhetoric so unpoetically rhetorical as Lord Russell's, or prose so prosy as Mr. Shaw's. 2006 F. Wilczek Fantastic Realities 159 Our modern, wonderfully successful Theory of Matter (usually called, quite unpoetically, the Standard Model). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1675 |
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