| 单词 | weaknerved |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweak-nerved 2. As the second element in adjectival compounds, with the sense: having nerves of a specified kind, as full-nerved, strong-nerved, weak-nerved, etc. ΚΠ a1628 F. Greville Trag. Cicero (1651) sig. B3v/1 With strong-nerv'd eys, Like a young Eagle, he confronts our Sun. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 168 Our antient sturdy barons..whose race is now so thoroughly refin'd and fritter'd away into the more delicate modern-built frame of our pap-nerv'd softlings. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 2 A man of a long-sighted and a strong-nerved humanity. 1802 Sketch Paris II. lx. 293 These weak-nerved females, who would have fainted at the sight of a spider mangling a fly. 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 4 Even men called brave and steady-nerved waited for company to make the journey. 1932 New Yorker 14 May 22/1 The bankers who were setting up the biggest financial pyramids of yesterday are replaced by other steel-nerved bankers today. 1995 New Yorker 30 Jan. 75/2 Historically, this trembling-nerved, loud and heroic Winchell is invisible. weak-nerved weak-nerved adj. ΚΠ 1803 F. W. Blagdon Paris as it Was II. lx. 293 These weak-nerved females, who would have fainted at the sight of a spider mangling a fly. < as lemmas |
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