“metromania”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

metromania

释义

metromania|mɛtrəʊˈmeɪnɪə|
[f. Gr. µέτρο-ν metre n.¹ + -mania; after F. métromanie.]
A mania for writing poetry. Hence metroˈmaniac, one affected with metromania; also attrib. or as adj.; metromaˈniacal a., pertaining to or affected with metromania (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1856).
1794Gifford Baviad (1811) 46 This pernicious pest, This metromania, creeps thro' every breast. [1818Blackw. Mag. III. 519 Of all the manias of this mad age, the most incurable..seems to be no other than the metromanie.]1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry I. 183 On a sudden [Bodmer] seemed to have acquired the facility of versification, and to display it with almost metromaniac eagerness.1884Hunter & Whyte My Ducats & My Dau. xiii. (1885) 179 No one knows what I have had to endure from the metromaniacs.

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