| 单词 |
illth |
| 释义 |
illth|ɪlθ| [f. ill a. + -th1.] Used by and after Ruskin as the reverse of wealth in the sense of ‘well-being’: Ill-being.
1860Ruskin Unto this Last iv. 126 As mere accidental stays and impediments acting not as wealth, but (for we ought to have a correspondent term) as ‘illth’. 1886O. Lodge Inaug. Addr. in L'pool Univ. Coll. Mag. Mar. 136 A hundred sovereigns may be no wealth, but the direst illth, to the drowning wretch in whose pockets they serve only as a load to drag him to destruction. 1889G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. i. 22 (Sub-heading) ‘Illth’. |

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