| 单词 | worsting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈworsting ˈworsting n. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [noun] fallOE confusionc1290 discomfiturea1400 castc1400 overthrowc1440 confoundinga1450 jeofail1546 prostitution1567 lurch1584 worsting1607 unhorsing1608 supplantation1617 defeat1676 overset1789 punishment1811 overthrowal1862 beating1883 unhorsement1884 whoop-ass1974 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 18 Neither the triumph of the Papist, nor the worsting of the Protestant..can cause it to vanish away from thence. 1750 F. Bellers Delineation Universal Law ii. iv. 22 As all Things necessary for Life are capable of being wasted or worsted..; if the Consequence of such wasting or worsting..did not, by the Laws of Property, light on the Persons who were the respective Causes of them, the whole Burden of human Life would fall on the few Frugal and Industrious. 1842 J. H. Newman Church of Fathers (ed. 2) 60 We might have conquered by a worsting which was honourable and dignified. 1883 R. Broughton Belinda I. i. ix. 159 The dispute ends in the worsting of the person to whom alone it is of any consequence to succeed. 2001 Victorian Stud. 43 632 His worsting by Lord Palmerston and eclipse by William Ewart Gladstone in the leadership of Liberalism. < as lemmas |
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