| 单词 | world-devouring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworld-devouring world-devouring adj. ΚΠ ?1594*World-deuouring [see Compounds 4c(a)]. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 402 These stormy Seas deepe World-deuouring waues. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) v. cxcix. 66 From Philip and his world-devouring Son. 1832 T. Carlyle Corn-Law Rhymes in Edinb. Rev. July 355 A bodeful sound, like the rustle of approaching world-devouring tornadoes, quivers through their whole existence. 1938 D. Thomas Let. 1 June in Sel. Lett. (1966) 199 A world-devouring ghost creature bit out the horror of tomorrow from a gentleman's loins. 2006 C. Tripp Islam & Moral Econ. v. 191 Others may simply be made to stand for the practices which capitalism has encouraged and has made an accelerated part of the ‘world-devouring’ nature of its onward momentum. < as lemmas |
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