单词 | woman scorned |
释义 | > as lemmaswoman scorned woman scorned n. a woman who has been betrayed in love, esp. one who has been rejected in favour of another woman.In allusion to Congreve's use hell hath no fury like a woman scorned (see hell n. and int. Phrases 1d.). Π 1696 C. Cibber Love's Last Shift iv. 71 He shall find no Fiend in Hell can match the fury of a disappointed Woman!—Scorned! slighted! dismissed without a parting Pang!] 1753 Hist. Fanny Seymour xxxv. 294 After the Salutation, (which may be naturally expected from a Woman scorned; and heaping upon him the Names of Hypcrite and Villain) she composed herself a little, and thus addressed him. 1807 Lady Morgan Novice of St. Dominick I. viii. 81 She..for once descended from the accustomed trope, figure, and metaphor, of her high-flown rhetoric, to speak in the more forcible and poignant language of ‘a woman scorned’. 1866 J. G. Saxe Masquerade & Other Poems 56 In classic authors we are often warned There's naught so savage as a ‘woman scorned’. 1927 W. Johnston Affair in Duplex 9B 60 The old idea of ‘the woman scorned’ on which Chilton had been relying this time failed utterly. 1971 ‘J. Ripley’ Davis doesn't live Here 124 The discarded mistress—the ‘woman scorned’—motive. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 22 June 100/1 Here's more bitchery on wheels: an Indian gothic fear film about a woman scorned and the fury that follows. < as lemmas |
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