单词 | vice-haunted |
释义 | > as lemmasvice-haunted a. With past participles, as vice-bitten, vice-corrupted, vice-created, vice-haunted, vice-polluted, vice-worn; also vice-sick adj. ΚΠ 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 115 For a Devil to be so Vice-haunted as that he should roare at the picture of a Vice burnt in a pece of paper..is a passion exceeding all apprehension. 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 56 These our vice-corrupted times. 1735 J. Thomson Greece: 2nd Pt. Liberty 496 Independence stoops the head, To Vice enslav'd, and Vice-created Wants. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xxx. 186 What a paltry creature is a man vice-bitten, and sensible of detected folly. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Choephoræ in tr. Æschylus Tragedies 337 Rouse, sting, and drive the vice-polluted wretch With brazen scourges tortur'd thro' the city. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 223 He has converted..the over-grown coxcomb boy, into the vice-sick, dispirited debauchee. 1884 ‘E. Lyall’ We Two I. iv. 84 The usual careworn or viceworn faces. 1890 E. Johnson Rise Christendom 104 Many a vice-haunted monk must have gone mad but for this resource. < as lemmas |
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