| 单词 |
deathward |
| 释义 |
deathward, adv. and a.|ˈdɛθwəd|
Forms: see death n.
[See -ward.]
A. adv. In the direction of death, towards death.
a. orig. to (one's) deathward = towards one's death.
c1430Lydg. Bochas i. ix. (1544) 18 b, Kind [= Nature] to his deathward..doth him dispose. c1440Gesta Rom. xlvii. 202 (Harl. MS.), I sawe him go to deþeward. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 129 Ye shall not go to your dethward. 1876Swinburne Erechth. 705 And wash to deathward down one flood of doom.
β1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 807 When he drawes to dedward. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxi. 96 When þaire frendez drawez to þe deed ward.
b. without to.
1844Mrs. Browning Poems, Lady Geraldine's Courtship Concl. ix, So..Would my heart and life flow onward, deathward. 1887Swinburne Locrine iv. i. 77 Our senses sink From dream to dream down deathward.
B. adj. Tending towards death.
1854‘G. Greenwood’ Haps & Mishaps 43 O immortal stones,..mocking..the mournful mortality, the deathward throbbing, of the brows ye encircle! 1882Swinburne 8 Yrs. Old in Tristram of L. 257 Sounds of dying and dawning years, Now quickened on his deathward way. 1899Daily News 17 Oct. 8/3 A pleasant-looking, neatly-dressed woman on the deathward side of fifty. 1937J. M. Murry Necessity of Pacifism v. 86 The individualized, by the very fact of its individualization, belongs to the deathward movement of society. |
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